In doing some research on Clan House, a shop in Grove Street in Edinburgh, where my mum used to take me and my two sisters to buy our school uniform, leather satchels, maths sets etc, I came across this advertisement [Scotsman, 16 May 1946]:
The Enchanted Capital of Scotland by Jessie M. King was published in 1945
The book describes a trip packed with discoveries, as a party of school children pay a visit to Edinburgh.
Jessie King made the whole book one extended design with drawings weaving in and out of the text She filled each page with flowers, butterflies, elves, children and the architectural marvels of the city. Her biographer, Colin White, “She drew the city as a child might see it, without perspective or modelling, capturing the feeling of wonder that the unsophisticated visitors must have had in first seeing the sights there.”
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