The Factor's garland : a pathetic history. Giving an account of an English factor being in Turkey, who sees the dead body of a Christian lying in the streets, and refused burial - causes the body to be interred. On going a little further, he finds a beautiful young woman, held as a slave, about to be strangled - he ransomes her, and brings her to England as his housekeeper. The young woman turns out to be a foreign princess! The factor cast out on a desolate island, from which he is afterwards rescued by the arrival of a supernatural-looking being in a boat, who is found out to be the ghost of the Christian, whose burial he had obtained in Turkey. - The factor and princess arrive at her father's court - their reception, marriage, re-appearance of the ghost, and other particulars. Also, The tragedy of Sir James the Rose.
Bruce, Michael,1746-1767.
[Newcastle] : Printed & sold by W. & T. Fordyce, 48, Dean Street, Newcastle, and 43, Myton Gate, Hull,
[1832-1837?]
Dates derived from Hunt, C. J. 'The book trade in Northumberland and Durham to 1860' (1975).
Illustration on title page, p. 14 and p. 23.
'Sir James the Rose' is by Michael Bruce.
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