Begun when its author was twenty, in the days of Scott and Jeffrey, this collection gathers the lore of Old Edinburgh street by street: the Castle-Hill, the West Bow, the Luckenbooths, the Old Tolbooth, St Giles and the Nor’ Loch. Chambers recalls the dress, manners, houses and notorious characters of the eighteenth-century town, revising the work in 1868 with the hindsight of forty-five years.
Chambers later wrote Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation; here he is a genial guide for anyone walking the Royal Mile. Download the free EPUB.