A full, true, and particular account of the wretched death on wednesday last of a notorious miser : who resided in the Cowgate, and was in the constant practice of gathering up rags and bones off the streets and begging about the country, - and of the enormous sums which were hidden in various curious places in his miserable dwelling, amounting to nearly L.2000.
Maidment, James,1793-1879,former owner.StEdNL.
Edinburgh : Printed for Ceorge Graig [sic],
[ca 1830?]
'Price one penny'.
The sheet has been cut and mounted.
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.
Misers