A plan for improving the city of Edinburgh

Item author: James Craig
Item date: 1786
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 1650
Item date acquired: 1991
Item institution: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Craig designed the New Town of Edinburgh and this rare book is his attempt to formalise the approach to the New Town across the North Bridge in a series of grand crescents and squares with provision for new public buildings

Item Provenance
Presented by Craig to Ilay Campbell, Lord Advocate