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[DODSLEY, Robert]. Melpomene: or The regions of terror and pity. An ode.

London. [s.n.], 1757. First edition.
Quarto. 15pp, [1]. Modern tan cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed and marked. Book-label of Nottingham Free Public Libraries to upper board. Loan label of Nottingham Free Public Libraries to FEP, typed booksellers description tipped-in to FFEP, ink-stamps of Nottingham Free Public Libraries to title page, p.3, and p.15, nineteenth-century inked ownership inscription and manuscript author attribution to title page.
The sole edition of bookseller and writer Robert Dodsley's (1704-1764) twenty-five stanza poetic exploration into the realm of tragedy; issued anonymously at the shop of trade publisher Mary Cooper (d. 1761) in September 1757.
ESTC T39111.
£ 375.00 Antiquates Ref: 29353