Lost in a good book...

One of Edinburgh's book sculptures, created by an anonymous female paper sculptor. This one was gifted to Edinburgh as UNESCO City of Literature in 2011 - it was "found" around the Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature information stand in the entrance tent to the Book Festival.

It is made from an Everyman's Library edition of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg (a truly amazing book if you haven't read it).

In case you can't read it, the note accompanying the sculpture says: "To @edincityoflit 'A gift' LOST (albeit in a good book) This is for you in support of libraries, books, words, ideas…. “No infant has the power of deciding….. by what circumstances (they) shall be surrounded.. Robert Owen".

This sculpture was in the Central Library on George IV Bridge where my photography group Wifie was meeting. It's in a case, hence the reflections and other distortions. I had thought about blipping the Mardi Gras in the Grassmarket - the opening event of the Jazz and Blues Festival, but I was a big feardy and didn't brave the elements. Never mind, there are others who were made of sterner stuff - such as Edisteve.