Attractive and interesting new series
Those who know and love the cities for which M. Sasek has made his huge picture-book guides, with the brief, amusing and perceptive captions, enjoy them enormously and those who hope to visit them some day cannot help but find them alluring. In each his keen perceptive eye caught not only the precise look of buildings, squares, monuments and people of all kinds, but the mood of various parts of these cities. Now he gives us Edinburgh...He does not mention "Auld Reekie" at all. In fact his visit must have been a sunny one for he sees color everywhere in the grey capital of the north, in the flower clock on Princes Street, in the tartans (not pictured in quite the true colors in the text), in the brighter streets and gayly painted mews, and in school uniforms. His views of buildings are wonderful, architecturally precise yet softened to make interesting compositions and everyone surely will delight in his fine watercolors of the castle from Princes Street. We were surprised not to see the exquisitely harmonious Charlotte Square and some other of our favorite spots, but there is a limit to the number of these fine pictures, and we would not drop any of them...
Text from Attractive and interesting new series, in Lively Arts and Book Review, May 14, 1961, p.30