Hieroglyphic love letter.
Maidment, James,1793-1879,former owner.StEdNL.
[Edinburgh] : Sanderson, printer, High Street, Edinburgh,
[1840?]
A love letter which exchanges symbols and illustrations for many of the words.
'Travellers and hawkers supplied'.
The letter begins: 'Dearest Isabella, Hoping the goodness of your heart will excuse my presumption, I have at last been induced to offer you my hand, dreading the farther competition of a certain one eyed maker of shoes...'.
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.
Picture-writing
Love letters