A new approved Act of Parliament : for the benefit of young men, old men, maids, wives, widows, old maids, bachelors, &c. At a meeting of several ladies and gentlemen of this town, held for the better management and conducting order and regularity in society, Mr Steady in the chair, the following resolutions were passed:---.
Maidment, James,1793-1879,former owner.StEdNL.
[Edinburgh] : Sanderson, printer, Edinburgh,
[1840?]
Four woodcuts beneath first part of title.
'Histories, patters, ballads, &c., wholesale and retail.'.
A satire giving a list of resolutions that were seemingly passed by an Act of Parliament.
The list begins: Resolved, 1st.---That no lady shall wear a bonnet more than one yard round; and no more than two to be allowed to walk arm in arm together, so that they may not obstruct the way, (to prevent persons being turned off the pavement by the said bonnets) under the penalty of five pounds.
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.
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