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Tolbooth, High Street (Edinburgh, Scotland)

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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Old Jail, High Church and County Hall, 1817

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/66
Scope and Contents

Old Jail, High Church and County Hall. Etching. 1817. Gibson, Patrick, 1782-1829, Artist, Etcher; Pillans, J., & Son, Publisher.

Published in: Select Views in Edinburgh (1818).

Note: Plate 4. Numbers keyed to book text. cf. Daniel Wilson Scrapbook [NMS] 21v(3).

Dates: 1817
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

The Tolbooth, October 1832

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/68(ii)
Scope and Contents

The Tolbooth. Line engraving. October 1832. Nasmyth, Alexander, 1758-1840, Artist; Finden, Edward Francis, 1791-1857, Engraver; Chapman and Hall, Publisher.

Publisher statement: London, Published … by Chapman & Hall, 186, Strand.

Published in: W. Finden, Landscape Illustrations of the Waverley Novels (1834), vol. 1.

Note: Below, at left: 'Heart of Midlothian'. Illustrating Scott [http://illustratingscott.lib.ed.ac.uk] LIW0025.

Dates: October 1832
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

[Tolbooth], 1821

 piece
Identifier: Coll-10/1/68(i)
Scope and Contents

[Tolbooth]. Line engraving. 1821. Nasmyth, Alexander, 1758-1840, Artist; Lizars, W. H. (William Home), 1788-1859, Engraver.

Note: Title-page vignette for Heart of Midlothian: this is a slightly cropped version of the plate in Sixteen Engravings from Real Scenes supposed to be described in the Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley (1821), with variant artist and engraver credits. See Illustrating Scott [http://illustratingscott.lib.ed.ac.uk] NTD0012.

Dates: 1821
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh