Proposals for opening a Scotch eating house, or, North country ordinary : and Scotch chocolate house, in the neighbourhood of St. James's.
Maidment, James,1793-1879,former owner.StEdNL.
[London] : Printed and sold by B. Rothery 137 Minories,
[1817-1824?]
First lines read: Dear country folk,/ When I considered and rightly weighed the swarms o' ye that come t' this toun, and how yer poor distressed and starved weans want sic good and wholesome meals as ye were used to.
'Price 1 1/2d. or 12 different sorts for 15d.'.
Signed at end: Robert M'Mufty. Jonney M'Gusty, both of which are pseudonyms.
A satire on eating houses.
Dated from the British Book Trade Index.
Provenance: Bound in a volume carrying the inscription 'This collection is understood to have been formed by the late James Maidment and it has been added to by me. John A. Fairley' on first fly-leaf.
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