Adventures and adventurers > Factor's garland
| Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Adventures and adventurers > Factor's garland |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/104185358 |
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| Description | In four parts. Part I. Being a true account how a young man (after having rioted away part of his estate) became factor to several merchants in London. How he found the corpse of a dead Christian lying on the ground in Turkey, and gave fifty pounds for its burial. Part II. How he freed a young woman from being strangled, and brought her to London. Part III. And how by a vest of her flowering, the prince her father came to hear of his daughter. Part IV. How he was betrayed and cast over board, and what way and manner he was preserved and and [sic] brought to the prince's palace, and married to the damsel, etc. |
| Shelfmark | L.C.2835(16) |
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| Description | Over 3,000 chapbooks published in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Subjects include courtship, humour, occupations, fairs, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, Jacobites, transvestites, and freemasonry. Chapbooks are small booklets of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, often illustrated with crude woodcuts. Produced cheaply and sold by peddlars on the streets, they formed the staple reading material of the common people, along with broadsides. |
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