Historic Pictures of Edinburgh Cassell's Old and New Edinburgh by James Grant was printed as a periodical in the 1880s and is now seen as a set of three or six volumes, and describes its history, its people, and its places by using anecdotal historical text with endless illustrations. These volumes were a gift from my uncle, Bill Smith. As someone who has lived in Edinburgh for more than 50 years, the illustrations still thrill and excite me no matter how often I look at them. For this reason I wanted to put them online in such a format that Edinburgh school children and students might easily download the images or text whilst researching the history, architecture, society of Edinburgh's Old or New Towns. —Hamish Horsburgh
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Old and New Edinburgh Vol. I by James Grant
- Title Page and Plates
- Introduction
- Ch 1: Prehistoric Edinburgh
- Ch 2: The Castle of Edinburgh
- Ch 3: Castle of Edinburgh (continued)
- Ch 4: Castle of Edinburgh (continued)
- Ch 5: Edinburgh Castle (continued)
- Ch 6: Edinburgh Castle (continued)
- Ch 7: Edinburgh Castle (concluded)
- Ch 8: The Castle Hill
- Ch 9: The Castle Hill (concluded)
- Ch 10: The Lawnmarket
- Ch 11: The Lawnmarket (continued)
- Ch 12: The Lawnmarket (continued)
- Ch 13: The Lawnmarket (concluded)
- Ch 14: The Tolbooth
- Ch 15: The Church of St. Giles
- Ch 16: The Neighbourhood of St. Giles
- Ch 17: The Parliament House
- Ch 18: The Parliament House (concluded)
- Ch 19: The Parliament Close
- Ch 20: The Royal Exchange - The Tron Church - The Great Fire of November, 1824
- Ch 21: The High Street
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