Hat bill..
McCaskie, James.
[Leith] : James Burnet, printer, Leith,,
[1832?]
Caption title.
"James M'Caskie has the largest and most fashionable stock of hats, ever exhibited in the town of Leith, which he is determined to sell at very reasonable prices. All this is reason; but, as rhyme is the order of the day in the hat trade, you will get what more I have to say as follows:--". [at head of poem]
Advertising hand bill for James McCaskie, first listed in the Edinburgh post office directory for 1831-32, as a hatter and furrier in Leith in Tolbooth Wynd, but in the directory for the the following year, he has relocated to 140, Kirkgate. McCaskie alerts customers to his change of address in a poem advertising his wares.
Affixed to a sheet which also has two engravings, a newspaper clipping, and on the verso a coloured lithograph.
Hats
Scotland Leith.