Engraving of the Luckenbooths beside St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh. Since demolished.
SC 426672
Description Engraving of the Luckenbooths beside St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh. Since demolished.
Date c. 1850
Catalogue Number SC 426672
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of D 49934 P
Scope and Content Luckenbooths, High Street, Edinburgh Luckenbooths were the ground-floor shops or 'locked booths' of a tenement that stood in the High Street on the north side of St Giles' Cathedral. The tenement, built in 1440, was heightened in the 16th or 17th century and demolished in 1817. In the passage between tenement and church were the stalls or 'krames' where goldsmiths, jewellers and toymakers sold their goods. In the 16th century, George Heriot, goldsmith to James VI and founder of George Heriot's School, had his stall here. In the 18th century 'the most profitable trade' in Edinburgh was 'that of Bookseller'. Wig-maker Allan Ramsay became bookseller, publisher and author in a shop in the Luckenbooths where he opened Scotland's first circulating library in 1725. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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