Author: PRICE, LAWRENCE MARSDEN (ED.)
Title: Inkle and Yarico album
Description: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1937; 8vo (24cm), frontispiece, (6+)171pp., black-white illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, index, dark grey clot w. priceclipped dustjacket. V. good copy. Rare in NL. ¶ Selected and arranged by L.M. Price. An Englishman from Barbados sells his slave-mistress. Inkle and Yarico is loosely based on a "true" story which became a much repeated popular narrative in the 17th and 18th centuries and has been reworked as a comic opera.

Keywords: English literature, 18th c.