Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 47

• Primary compiler

  Possibly also a Major author. 

• Owner

pp. 63–66.

Local title: The FireSide.

Attributed author: Mr. Cotton

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 38–43.

Local title: Advice to a Young Lady lately Married.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 85–86.

Local title: On the Death of Mr Rowe.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 26-27

Local title: An Evening Hymn

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

p. 46

Local title: Pious rules for daily practice.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Source attribution: "London Mag: 1743."

pp. 95–96

Local title: From Hervey's Meditations.

Attributed author: Hervey.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Rare.

Pre-bound paperbook. Entire book is filled, pages are cut out at the end, and writing is cramped by the gutter and the edge of the page.

Calf.

Single.

This whole book seems to be a woman’s book, even if source is a man’s library because of subject matter and also laundry list at end, in same hand.

Very simple format, just freestyle horizontal line at end of each item.

Yes, some is probably the work of the copyist and her friends.

Written into front cover: "Old Mr Robinson, bookseller, at Berick’s Head, Pilgrim St., told me that this book came from the library of John Graham Clarke, grandfather to Mrs Elizabeth Barret Browning. It is the usual poetry book of young people who, at a time when books were dear, copied the poems &c. that pleased them most. It contains two poems which may be called local. One is on 'Sir Walter Blackett’s Birthday' and the other an 'Inscription by Akenside,' first published in 1758."

Signed: "R. W."

Paginated (pagination skips from p. 50 to p. 60).