LETTERS ON SEVERAL SUBJECTS. With a half-title page with previous owners signature . Title in red and black. Contemporary calf, Pseudenom of William Melmoth (bap. 1710, d. 1799) 1st edition 1748. Though considered to be largely fictionalised, they do contain some autobiographical truths being illustrative of Melmoth's preferred themes of morality, arts, rhetoric, antiquity, and the pressing matter of cruelty to insects. Printed under the pseudonym of Sir Thomas Fitzosborne, the work would become a best-seller for publisher J. Dodsley, reaching the tenth edition by 1795.
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