The Factor's garland.
Subtitle: Being a true account how a young man, (after having rioted away part of his estate) became factors to several merchants in London. How he found the corps of a dead Christian lying on the ground in Turkey, and gave fifty pounds for the burial. How he freed a young woman from being strangled, and brought her to London. How by a vest of her flow[e]ring the prince her father came to hear of his daughter. And how he was betray'd and cast overboard, and what way and manner he was preserved and brought to the prince's palace, and maried to the damsel
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 49814
Publisher: Printed [by Ashbel Stoddard?] for the purchaser.
Published: 1790
Place of publication: [Hudson, N.Y.?]
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Deception in literature
Notes: In verse

Approximate date of publication surmised from the types and paper used. The only known copy, held by the American Antiquarian Society, was found bound with a copy of The Yarmouth tragedy, or Jamie and Nancy's garland, Hudson: Printed for the itinerant booksellers. That copy has been dated [179-?] and tentatively ascribed to the press of Ashbel Stoddard of Hudson, N.Y

Title vignette: a three-masted ship

Not in Evans or Bristol

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