Elegy on the late wee Geordie More : a well known character in Auld Reekie, who died on Friday, the 18th January 1828, and was buried in the Greyfriars Church-yard, on Sunday the 20th.
Maidment, James,1793-1879,former owner.StEdNL.
[Edinburgh : s.n.,
1828]
The elegy begins: 'Lament, ye wee men, ane an' a, / For wee, wee Geordie's now awa'.
A fifteen verse elegy on Geordie More - a well known Edinburgh character, followed by a three verse epitaph. Signed at foot 'Z'.
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.
Elegiac poetry
Epitaphs