Monday 14 April 2014

An Interesting Find!

The bright tartan cover of this booklet immediately attracted my attention in a second hand bookshop.


It is entitled "The Capital of Scotland" and contains many beautiful prints of Edinburgh landmarks.  Most of them are by the watercolour artist Robert Eadie RSW.  I had not heard of this Glasgow artist before I saw these beautiful colour reproductions.  You can read more about him here.


The booklet itself has a little about each of the places pictured and this is translated into Chinese, Polish, Russian and French.


It was produced during the war by the then Lord Provost (mayor) of Edinburgh, the Rt Hon Sir William Y Darling, as he says -

"... that it may serve not only to make the visit to this Capital City interesting but help forward the greater cause of friendship among all the Cities and all the Peoples of the World."

It was produced by Robert Grant & Son Limited, printers in Edinburgh.  Their own artist, Charles Stewart produced some of the other images.


A fabulous and very interesting find.


Love, Liz

7 comments:

mamasmercantile said...

Indeed a wonderful find and some amazing illustrations.

sky-blu-pink said...

Great find , will make very interesting reading.

Anonymous said...

that is a treasure find!!

Paulette said...

What a treasure you have found, the watercolors are stunning. How interesting it was produced using so many different languages. Just wonderful!

Robyn of Oz said...

What a lovely find Liz. Lots to enjoy there. :)

Patricia said...

What a smashing find Liz, steeped in history with some gorgeous pictures. A real treasure.

Meggie said...

What a wonderful fine...love it!