A print from a disbound book of Scotland published 1900. Blank on the reverse, this has been trimmed from the original page size to fit boarded envelope, scan shows the trimmed page being sold.
Suitable for framing, the average page size is approx 10.75" x 8.25" or 27.5cm x 21cm, including text and border.
Average image size approx 9.25" x 6.25" or 23.5cm x 16cm
This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print, please view the scans as they form part of the description.
1900 is the printing date, the original date of creation can be earlier.
All prints will be sent bagged and in a boarded envelope for maximum protection.
While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item.
Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)
NEWHAVEN HARBOUR.
Newhaven now joins the Port of Leith, on the west side. So far back as 1506 James IV. built here a ship-yard and dock, with something of what would now be called a dockyard establishment, but the whole passed into the control of Edinburgh City in 1510. In 1511 was built here the Great Michael, the largest vessel which up to that time had ever floated, and "armoured" with ten inches of oak; she was 240 ft. long, and cost £30,000, an enormous sum in those days. Since then the port has declined in importance, and is now only known as the seat of a fishery, especially of herrings. This herring fishery only dates from 1793, and the fleet connected with it has been quite recently reorganised by, the efforts of the late Dr. Fairbairn, the Free Church minister, who died in 1879.