Beinecke Osborn c147

• Dedicatee

• Dedicatee

• Major author
• Primary compiler

  Likely compiled by himself or a copyist.

p. 55

Local title: The snowball from Petronius Afranius. 

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: First line: "White as her hand, fair Julia threw..."

Other: n/a

p. 35

Local title: `To the right honourable the Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley' 

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

p. 49 

Local title: Given to a lady with a watch which she borrowed to hang at her bed's head

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

p. 9

Local title: `To [a lady in town after leaving the country], in answer to a letter, wrote in a fine hand' 

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

p. 55-56

Local title: The Snowball from Petronius Afranius 

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: One of two snowball poems by Jenyns

Never.

Pre-bound paperbook. Book is filled, but lines stay well away from gutter. Contents compile presentation poems to various individuals.

Page-edges coloured red.

Full sheep, gilt decoration.

Single.

A group of pages folded over, probably accidentally.

Yes, all written by Soame Jenyns for Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, and his daughter Margaret Harley Bentinck, and her circle of friends. Afterwards published in Dodsley’s Collection 1748, Jenyns poems 1752, Dodsley’s Museum, etc.

Generous white space.

Paginated.

Yes, at the end.

Yes: "Poems on severall occasions" followed by a Latin motto.