ENLIGHTENMENT EDINBURGH: A GUIDE

During the 18th century, Edinburgh was the intellectual hub of the Western world, and its physical embodiment was the New Town and the great civic improvements in the old medieval city. In this informative and highly illustrated guide Sheila Szatkowski introduces the noteworthy buildings of 18th- and early 19th-century Edinburgh. It is a book about people and places, clubs and conversations, and a celebration of how topography and cultural achievement came together to create the great enlightenment city.