Edinburgh Picturesque Notes By Robert Louis Stevenson Dust jacket notes: "This, Stevenson's second book, was first published in 1879. Since then it has appeared in many editions, with and without illustrations, but never with any worthy of its text. Mr. Coburn, who is famous for his twenty-four frontispiece-photographs in the New York edition of Henry James's works, took most of his photographs of Edinburgh in 1905; always, he tells us, he tried 'to look at Edinburgh through Stevenson's eyes.' The result is not so much a series of illustrations to the Picturesque Notes as a re-creation in another medium of the town that Stevenson knew. Some of the places have now vanished, but live again in photographs taken in 1905. Others, like Greyfriars Churchyard, are still much as Stevenson saw them. All combine to give a memorable impression of that two-faced city, where the respectable suburbs and urbane New Town hold at their heart the unpredictable mysteries of the Old. The book is introduced by Janet Adam Smith who, by her compilation Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson and her edition of Stevenson's Collected Poems, has established herself as a leading authority on Stevenson." We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience. Robert Louis Stevenson,Stevenson books,Stevenson pdf