Dandy bewitched : a copy of a love letter from a dandy clerk, in this city, to a well-known mauntamaker, wherein he depones by his beben tuckers, (which he declares to be of the finest cambric) that he loves her above all the rules of arithmetic.
Maidment, James,1793-1879,former owner.StEdNL.
[Edinburgh? : s.n.,
ca. 1830?]
Woodcut illustration of an idyllic landscape above the title.
The letter is signed 'John Slink'.
The main point of this text seems to be John Slink's complete lack of finances despite his determination to have the world think he is of the nobility and well-moneyed. This he does principally through credit.
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.
Dandies