Picturesque Tourist of Scotland facts for kids

Picturesque Tourist of Scotland is a book published in 1849 by A & C Black. It was printed in Edinburgh by Robert Black.

In the book's preface, it is established that the usual approach adopted by such books, including "needless and ambitious eulogies on the beauty and grandeur of natural scenery, of which no adequate idea can be conveyed to the mind by any written description," will be replaced by "plain and intelligible accounts". The idea was that the space created by these omissions would allow the inclusion of "traditionary, historical and literary illustration".

Early editions of the book included individual tours, each in their own chapter, with many beginning in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Some tours were undertaken by road, others by rail. Later editions grouped tours by length, divided into single-day excursions from Edinburgh or Glasgow, and tours from two to fourteen days.

Picturesque Tourist of Scotland was digitised by Google Books in 2009.

See also

• Black's Guides