Two Tales: The Royal Slave and the Fair Jilt. By Mrs Aphra Behn (1953) 1st edition.

Two Tales: The Royal Slave and the Fair Jilt. By Mrs Aphra Behn

Hardcover, marbled paper boards, foxing mainly to end papers, minor tanning, minor edge wear. Dust jacket, scuffed, chipped, tine tears and pieces missing from edges.

Publisher: London: The Folio Society. 1953 Black & white illustrations by Iris Francis. 147 pages.

The Royal Slave is more commonly known as Oroonoko

Aphra Behn was a prolific dramatist of the English Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers. Her writing contributed to the amatory fiction genre of British literature. Along with Delarivier Manley and Eliza Haywood, she is sometimes referred to as part of "The fair triumvirate of wit."

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