Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Francis Grant, Edwin Landseer and David Wilkie. Edinburgh, 1858: a shepherd's dog follows his master's coffin to Greyfriars kirkyard and refuses to leave the grave — for fourteen years, through the dog-license laws, the Lord Provost, and the whole of the Old Town. Atkinson was an Indiana teacher and journalist who wrote for the Chicago Tribune under a pen name; she made the tenements and the kirkyard as much the subject as the terrier. Fifty-nine plates of Scottish town and harbour scenes by painters including Alexander Nasmyth and David Wilkie carry the same streets, markets and coastline through which Bobby walked.
Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Francis Grant, Edwin Landseer and David Wilkie. Edinburgh, 1858: a shepherd's dog follows his master's coffin to Greyfriars kirkyard and refuses to leave the grave — for fourteen years, through the dog-license laws, the Lord Provost, and the wh...