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The Home Country of R. L. Stevenson. Being the valley of the Water of Leith from source to sea ... Illustrated by Joseph Brown. (Second edition.)

BROWN, Joseph - Artist, GEDDIE, John - Author of “The Fringes of Fife.” · 1898 · W. H. White & Co. · 53 pictures

A topographical travel account by John Geddie, published in Edinburgh by W. H. White & Co. in 1898, tracing the Water of Leith from its source to the sea through Stevenson's boyhood country, for local readers and literary tourists. Joseph Brown's soft tonal plates show arched stone bridges, weirs, mills, farmsteads and wooded riverbanks, offering grey-scale landscape backgrounds and vernacular building silhouettes.

British Library · HMNTS 10370.g.20. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain) · More from this library