Rosaline Masson — Edinburgh

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1904. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a lovely guide to the enchanting Scottish capital, filled with both stunning colour plates and entertaining anecdotes. The first edition of Edinburgh, a lovely guide to the historic Scottish capital, described by Scottish author Rosaline Masson, and illustrated by English landscape painter and illustrator John Fulleylove. In the publisher's decorative original blue cloth. Contains a colour frontispiece of Edinburgh from Calton Hill, and all twenty other colour illustrations capturing the city's beauty. Collated complete. Contains publisher's original advertisements to the rear. Masson tours the reader through Edinburgh as she highlights both the enchanting sites across both the Old and New Towns well as anecdotes and cultural features relating to the city. Having many histories and biographies, Masson's insights extend to famous visitors and residents such as Robert Louis Stevenson.  In the publisher's decorative original blue cloth. Externally, mostly smart, with a couple of faint marks to boards. Minor fading to spine, and slight bumping to the head and tail, and to the extremities. Slight skew to front board. Faint spotting to end papers, and previous owner's ink signature to front free end paper. Internally, generally firmly bound, with a loose plate adjoining p.8. Pages are mostly bright and clean, with the odd spot to leaf extremities, heavier spotting to leaves pp.8-10. Good . Ill.: John Fulleylove. Good .