Sethona. A Tragedy. As it is Performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane

by Alexander Dow

$475 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

First edition

London: Printed for T. Becket, the Corner of the Adelphi, in the Strand. MDCCLXXIV. 8vo, disbound. 4 , 75, 1 pp., all leaves inlaid. First edition of this play set in a mythical ancient Egypt. Alexander Dow d. 1779 spent much of his life serving in the British army in India. According to The Oxford Companion to English Literature in 1768 Dow “joined the fashion for Oriental Tales with Tales....of

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