Wheels around Edinburgh

Publications such as these are aimed primarily at the nostalgia and local studies market, but when brought together in a series or collection they can provide a library with a useful (and relatively inexpensive) collection of historical photographs. This particular volume has a fairly general interest, ranging from trains and buses to horse‐drawn vehicles, trams and commercial wheeled vehicles of many and varied types.

The quality of reproduction is good, to a generous page size (which takes a number of the illustrations up to about the maximum enlargement they can achieve before becoming indistinct), and the captions carry an amount...