Beinecke Osborn c143

Title
Poems. 1796.
Archive
Call Number
Beinecke Osborn c143
Complete
Yes
Description

Anonymous, 1796.

7 items, including "To the Reader" poem.

Mix of religious and moral themes, political satire.

Format
Not an octavo, despite bookseller’s note; horizontal chainlines; watermark in bottom position towards outer margin
Book Size
16cm x 12cm
Filled Page Count
60 pages
Item Count
7
Poem Count
7
Periods
First Line Index
Yes
Digitized
No
Region
Additional Genres
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 c143.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/343. Accessed .

Created
2019-11-04 7:09:34 PM
Updated
2023-07-19 4:18:19 PM
Contributor Role
  • Owner

    On the back fly-leaf: "Mary Dodd at Joseph Dodds Sawyer Kelsall Cheshire."

Feature Note

Never.

Full calf; gilt decoration on spine.

In gilt on spine: "Poems" (despite relatively few poems and the book's other uses).

Spotted fore-edge.

Drawing of a man on the back fly-leaf.

Single with domestic accounts in a different hand.

Set up to be a manuscript miscellany (with an address to the reader, suggesting they were expecting/hoping for an audience) but intentions not fulfilled. The back of the book contains a memoranda of domestic account in another hand, dated 1837–1838, recording purchases from the baker, butcher, and ale merchant, and listing expenses related to "club nights."

Written on the flyleaf, in the same hand as the ownership mark: "Two shillings for the notice and certificate you must give notice to the superintendent Registrar the marriage may be solemnized by the production of the Registrar's ceritificate."

Large-script titles.

Heavy horizontal lines separating titles and poem texts of one poem from the next.

The collection is prefaced by a lighthearted poem addressed to the reader.

Six poems befitting title "Poems. 1796" (recto sides only), followed by numerous blank pages, then the ambigraph section, presumably by Mary Dodd, recording domestic memoranda.

Yes, seemingly all original.

Back of the book signed "Mary Dodd at Joseph Dodds Sawyer Kelsall Cheshire"–apparently 1837f, but could be an indication of location.

Unpaginated (pencilled-in folios likely by a cataloguer).

Yes, decorated.