Folger MS M.a.53–58

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  Copied her father's collection of poetry and prose into six volumes after his death.

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  Collected poems and other items that his daughter copied into six volumes after his death ca. 1817,

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p. 286.

Local title: n/a

Attributed author: Mr. Bishop.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 301–302.

Local title: From the Same to the Same with a Pair of Gloves before Marriage.

Attributed author: Mr Bishop ["the Same" are here "Bishop, Mr" and his wife].

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: First line: Fir'd by resentment not by love...

Other: n/a

vol. 1, p. 185f

Local title: Mrs. Greville's A Prayer to Indifference

Attributed author: Mrs. Greville

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: cross-references at the bottom of the page to Lyttleton's reply (p. 408) and Lady Carlisle's Answer (vol. 3, p. 450). 

vol. 1, page: n/a

Local title: Few Happy Matches.

Attributed author: Dr. Watts.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 113–119

Local title: Advice to a Lady. 1731

Attributed author: Lord Lyttleton

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 299–301. 

Local title: A Gentleman on his late Anniversary of his wedding day presented his Wife with a Ring & the following Lines.

Attributed author: Mr Bishop.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

p. 302.

Local title: At the Request of a Gentleman to whom a Lady had given a Sprig of Myrtle.

Attributed author: Dr. Johnson.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: First line: "What hopes, what terrors does thy gift create..."

Other: n/a

vol. 3, pp. 450–453

Local title: Lady Carlisle's Answer to Mrs. Greville's Prayer to Indifference

Attributed author: Lady Carlisle

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: cross-references "Prayer to Indifference" (vol. 1 p. 185). 

Frequent, some seemingly inserted later.

Post-bound. Pages trimmed very evenly.

Marbled paper boards and calf backstrips.

Red labels, "Poems," ca. 1795-1817, replaced by Folger in 1952 with green cloth backstrips.

In vol. 1 (M.a.53) there is a silhouette of Dixon by his granddaughter, Laura Beercroft. 

Single.

Opening silhouette by granddaughter, note by daughter, and poem by friend memorialising the compiler serves as a “wreath” in his remembrance set before the collection of poetry he compiled.

M.a. 53 contains introductory remarks by Dixon's daughter, Judith Dixon Beecroft, and a laudatory poem by John Taylor. 

Each volume contains the bookplate of John Arundell Hudson.

Paginated.

Impressions of six points on every recto page and outer margin rulings, possibly from a device for guiding lines. These guidemarks disappear after vol. 3.

Yes, at the start of each volume.

Labeled "Contents" but actually alphabetical indexes. 

Each volume has a title page like "1^st: Poems Vol: 1" (or variation – e.g. Vol^me. 3^rd.) except for Vol. 2, which has no title page.