Clark MS 1950.025

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  Probably also the Primary compiler. 

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pp. 13–16

Local title: Cato's Ghost.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Pre-bound paperbook. Book entirely filled to the index, then 6 blank pages, probably reserved for continuation of the index.

Bound in full contemporary brown calf; blind tooled; spine cracked with loose pages and detached covers.

Several neat hands:

The first hand is continuous from pp. 3-32; then there's a new hand; index shows the same shift at p. 33, with the second hand continuing for the rest of the index, through to the top of p. 93.

pp. 1–93, spaces were often left from the ends of poems to the bottoms of pages; these spaces are filled in a third hand.

After p. 93, a fourth hand and mixture of new hands come into the mix, but Strafford is still in the picture.

"x"s mark series of political poems. 

Hand one uses consistent poem separator; hand two uses a different but consistent one as well. 

Up to p. 93, the first two hands, spaces are often left from the ends of poems to the bottom of certain pages; these spaces are filled in by a 3^rd hand.

Armorial bookplate on front paste-down endpaper: "The Rt. Hon.ble Ann, Countess of Strafford."

Paginated by one of the compilers up to p. 93, then no pagination. Index also ends with this item.

Yes, "Index" at the end goes to p. 93. Poems in the second hand are included in the index, but poems in the third hand are not.