The Leeds tragedy [electronic resource] : Or, The bloody brother. Shewing, how a nobleman in Yorkshire had one son and one daughter; how the son fell in love with his sister; and how, because she would not yield to his unnatural lust, he cruelly ravished her, and most barbarously murdered her, and buried her secretly in his father's park; and how, by God's providence, after she had been six months buried, as he was hunting over the spot, the hounds would not stir one step from the place till the ground was opeded, [sic] where her body was found; how he fell from his horse, and confessed his most inhuman crimes; and how he was sent to jail, in order to be tried for the murder, which broke his father's heart
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- [London] : Printed and sold at the Printing-Office in Bow-Church-Yard, London, [1775?]
- 8p. ; 12⁰.
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- Acquired by J. Hussey in 1776
- Reproduction of original from National Library of Scotland.
- Verse.
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- English Short Title Catalog, T171470.
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- English poetry -- 18th century
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- Great Britain England London.
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