Sale of a wife. : A full and particular account of the sale of a woman, named Mary Mackintosh, which took place on Wednesday evening, the 16th of July, 1828, in the Grass Market of Edinburgh, accused by her husband of being a notorious drunkard; with the particulars of the bloody battle which took place afterwards..
Maidment, James,1793-1879,former owner.StEdNL L.C.1268(092)
[Newcastle] : W. Boag, printer, Newcastle.,
[1828]
The text begins: On Wednesday evening last, in the Grass-market, Mary Mackintosh was  brought down about six o'clock by her husband, for the purpose of being sold. Her crime was drunkenness and adultery.
Crawford, J.L.L. Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Catalogue of English broadsides,
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.
Wife abuse
England Newcastle.