Houghton MS Am 1894

• Primary compiler

Never.

Volume 1: Post-bound, pasteboard;

Volume 2: Post-bound, leather.

Both bindings appear amateur - Vol. 1 has stab-stitched gathering reinforced by burlap strips; Vol. 2 has stitching down the middle of the spine exterior.

Single.

 Vol. 1: the final item has been cut out; p. 18 addition of a missing line at the bottom of the page (as an annotation). This stands out in an otherwise perfectly fair copy manuscript; some staining in the upper right-hand corners, likely from the pages being turned eg. p. 159, 161.

Vol. 2: cross-outs of single words, but still very much a fair copy manuscript; division into two parts suggests awareness of the fact that part two isn’t thematically coherent with part one, though he attempts to return to his usual religious theme with the final poem.

Curled lines between items.

Double or single lines under titles. 

Volume two is divided into two parts. 

Likely, many not found in the First Line Index. 

"By S. Melancholicus" written on both title pages. 

Paginated.

Pages are filled; new items are started on the same page as the previous item when there is space enough for at least a few lines.

Yes, at the front of each volume.

Yes, for each volume.