Houghton MS Eng 680

• Primary compiler

f. 80

Local title: n/a

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

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f. 36.

Local title: n/a

Attributed author: Ambrose Philips.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: Incomplete.

Other: n/a

f. 79.

Local title: Elegy in a Country Churchyard.

Attributed author: Gray. 

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

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f. 2. 

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Rare.

Single.

Plenty of indications the book was compiled non-chronologically (blanks, spaces left for poems or decorative titles, general sense of space being designated before the previous pages were complete).

p. 69 pencil insert in another hand: “Paraphrase of [?] of Job by [?]”

p. 94 the first three lines only feature the first word of each line (as though those words were transcribed first for the whole page, followed by the remainder of each line). 

p. 121 “To the Memory of E: S.” only the first three words of the first line have been copied (“Whilst other were”), the rest of the page underneath the title is blank.

p. 122 “Elegy” crossed-out aggressively

Titles written in a larger, somewhat decorative font.

Double lines between most items; new items also frequently begun on new pages.

Double lines under most titles.

Occasional annotations.

Probably, many items unattributed. Presumably "On the Death of Edith Lovell & Joseph Sparrow, who were Shipwreck’d in their Passage from Cork to Bristol near Uphill in Somersetshire the 30th of 12th mo: 178{1}" (136) and maybe "To Ethelinda who sent the Author attach Paper with this Motto," and others

Paginated. 

Yes, on the back of the title page, but it does not list all the items. 

Yes: "Poems on Various Occasion’s and By Several Hands. Bristol 1780."