It is embellished with a portrait of a black man, which has evidently
been in its time a comic “nigger” of the Jim-Crow tobacco-paper kind,
as is evidenced by the traces of a tobacco-pipe, which has been
unskilfully erased.
The “Book” itself is concocted from an affidavit made by Edward Albert
before “P. Mackinlay, Esq., one of Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace
for the country (so it is printed) of Lanark.”
I have seen the affidavit, and it is almost identical with the
statement in the “book,” excepting in the matter of grammar, which has
rather suffered on its road to Mr. Howe, the printer.