Beinecke Osborn c82

Title Untitled
Archive Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Call Number Beinecke Osborn c82
Complete Yes
Description

Anne Taylor, around or after the 1790s. 

23 poems.

Verse extracts and original poems, many about death. One Jacobite poem, a couple poems about children, and some social satire. 

Format Quarto
Book Size 19.5 x 15.9 cm
Filled Page Count 30 pages
Item Count 25
Poem Count 23
Periods
First Line Index Yes
Digitized No
Region
Additional Genres Religious prose
Print Sources
Major Themes

Major themes prominent among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.

Minor Themes

Other themes of interest among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.

Links
Bibliography
Citation

Beinecke Osborn c82.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/13. Accessed .

Created 2019-09-04 1:13:44 PM
Updated 2023-12-14 9:58:34 AM
First Line Context Print Source
A Knife, dear Girl, cuts Love, they say

p. 27. 

Local title: With a present of a knife.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Unknown
Dear Cloe, while the busy croud

p. 2.

Local title: The fireside.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Unknown
God bless the King! (I mean our faith's defender!)

p. 5

Local title: The Manchester Blessing. 1745.

Attributed author: By Dr. Bryam

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Unknown
His Time was quick, his Touch was neat

p. 23

Local title: On a runaway musician.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: First line: "His time was short, his touch was neat..."

Other: n/a

Unknown
The rose had been wash'd, just wash'd in a shower

p. 6

Local title: The rose.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Unknown
Feature Note
Author attributions

Frequent.

Binding

Stiff paper wrappers, with an engraving on the upper cover. Stitching very visible along spine.

Decorations - printed

On the front cover-page, there is a picture of older women entering a building with beautiful young women inside with a sign that says “Old Women Ground Young.” Below this is written “Printed & Sold by Dean Conghton.”

Hands

Single.

Indications of use

Cross-outs; not a presentation copy.

Religious prose note on the back-cover.

The name “Dean” is practised twice on the left-hand-side of the cover page (the first name of the printer of the cover photo).

Item formatting

Title in the same font size as text.

Line of dashes separates items.

Original poetry

Yes, according to the catalogue; however, nothing in the presentation distinguishes these poems from the copied poems.

Ownership mark

On the first page: “Anne Taylor/ Lymme Hall.”

Page layout

Very little blank space; poems are back-to-back and the pages are dense.