Sat 13 Nov
|The Edinburgh Bookshop
BOOK LAUNCH: Edinburgh by Robert Louis Stevenson with Manderley Press
Join us, Manderley Press, Linda Dryden and Iain McIntosh for a very special evening. On what would have been Robert Louis Stevenson's 171st birthday, we will be celebrating the launch of the first Manderley press title - Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes.
Time & Location
13 Nov 2021, 18:00 – 20:00 GMT
The Edinburgh Bookshop, 219 Bruntsfield Pl, Edinburgh EH10 4DH, UK
About the Event
FREE Event
Location: The Edinburgh Bookshop, 219 Bruntsfield Place, EH10 4DH
Join us and Manderley Press for a very special evening. On what would have been Robert Louis Stevenson's 171st birthday, we will be celebrating the launch of the first Manderley press title - Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes. This book is a brand new edition of the vintage travel classic by Stevenson, first published in 1878 and now re-issued with an introduction by Alexander McCall Smith and specially commissioned illustrations by Iain McIntosh.
Linda Dryden, Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh Napier University, and a specialist in Robert Louis Stevenson's works, will be giving a short introduction to Stevenson's Edinburgh, and artist Iain McIntosh will be signing copies of the art print he designed for the front cover of the book.
About The Book
A 'sort of Bible' to all nineteenth-century Scots, Stevenson's gloriously vivid and entertaining portrait of Edinburgh continues to beguile…