Clark MS 1984.004

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• Major author

• Primary compiler

p. 59

Local title: Advice to the Fair Sex.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: Only the last six lines of Gray's poem and under a different title, though Gray's poem is given as the source.

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 72–75.

Local title: An Evening Address to a Nightingale.

Attributed author: Shaw.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Includes annotation of "he, the noblest..." as referring to Lord Lyttleton. 

p. 136.

Local title: Elegy—Written by Mr. Mason, on the death of his Wife, who died whilst drinking a Glass of Water at Bristol-Wells.

Attributed author: Mr. Mason.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 87–92.

Local title: An Elegy. Describing the sorrow of an ingenuous mind, on the melancholy Event of a licentious Amour.

Attributed author: Shenstone.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Attributed source: Shenstones Works.

Regular; though sometimes just the print source, not the author’s name.

Vellum with simple tooling.

Single, though quite variable in appearance. 

Note opposite p.1 to the reader about underlining (as well as title page and index) suggest efforts made to unify the book, and sense of an audience. 

Yes, p. 25 item attributed to Trigg. 

"Thos. Trigg, Royston, Cambridgeshire" and "TT." inscribed on front paste-down endpaper; "T. Trigg 1785" and "Thos. Trigg 1785" inscribed on front free endpaper.

Paginated (by the compiler beginning after the index).

Yes, an alphabetical index immediately following the title page. Entries are a mixture of titles, authors, subjects, somewhat arbitrarily.

Yes.