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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Small gift message in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Written by Trevor Royle with original illustrations by Richard Demarco A Diary of Edinburgh is at the same time a record of the past a celebration of the present and an invitation to the future. Through individual entries for each day of the year the text records the public and private events in Edinburgh’s history recalling to the reader the arrival of princes and the ruin of printers and bringing alive the records of diarists and the thunderings of the city fathers. Both the glory and the squalor of Edinburgh’s past are unforgivingly revealed as the year passes. Lying alongside is Richard Demarco’s unique collection of drawings of Edinburgh. Executed in pen and ink they explore the city as it now appears; small figures disappearing up Old Town closes and cars sheltering in the Castle’s lee. These are an invitation to explore or revisit the small and secret places wherein Edinburgh’s history was made. As to the future A Diary of Edinburgh is a challenge to the diarist urging him or her to record the minutiae of everyday life or to remark on observations never made before. For the visitor this volume is a gentle introduction to the city for the resident it is a daily reminder of the city’s past.