UChicago Library Codex Ms. 757

• Primary compiler

[inside front-cover]

Local title: On a Watch.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: This is a print insert of an illustrated copy of the poem that appears to have been used as an advertisement for "All Sorts of Clocks & Watches Made Mended & Sold by Jno Collins Wattesfield 1774." It's an interesting item because "Jno Collins..." is handwritten but the rest is printed.

pp. 5–8

Local title: The Fireside.

Attributed author: Dr. Cotton [in another hand].

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 17–20

Local title: Advice to a young Lady lately married.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

[inside front-cover]

Local title: The Unknown World. Verses occasioned by hearing a Pass-Bell.

Attributed author: the Rev. Mr St—n.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Print insert.

pp. 42–47

Local title: An Elegy, upon the death of Mr Tho: Rowe written by his Wife.

Attributed author: [Mr Tho: Rowe's Wife]

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 25–28

Local title: Mrs Greville prays for Indifference.

Attributed author: Mrs Greville.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

p. 49

Local title: Epitaph by the Revd: Mr Mason upon his Wife, who died and was buried at Bristol.

Attributed author: the Revd: Mr Mason.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 33–41

Local title: An Elegy written in a Country Church Yard.

Attributed author: Mr Gray.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 15–16

Local title: From Mrs H[sic] at Bath to her Husband in London.

Attributed author: Mrs H.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 55-62

Local title: Ballad out of the Vicar of Wakefeild

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 95–96

Local title: Epitaph on a Lady who died of a Consumption at Bristol Wells. Wrote by her Husband.

Attributed author: by her Husband.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Occasional.

Post-bound. Filling of entire book suggests binding after compilation, but if so, must have been upon completion, because paste-ins are squeezed onto inside covers and blank spaces in the book.

Vellum on boards; seemingly 4 gatherings.

Ink illustration of vines/leaves dated Nov: 10. 1775 on inside-front cover.

Print insert of an illustrative and poetic watch advertisement signed "Jno. Collins Wattesfield 1774" on the inside-front cover.

One primary hand (Elizabeth Church's) with additions in up to eight other hands. Only two of the eight other hands make significant contributions.

There's a clear sense that Church was guiding the composition of the book even though/when other hands made additions.

The Greville poem on p. 76 is accompanied by the note “see page 25” (which also features a Greville poem) and “Crew” is annotated “Mrs Crew her daughter very Beautifull"—possible indications that the book was intended for outside readership.

The arrangement of the different hands suggests they were mostly adding to the book around the same time that Elizabeth Church was compiling it; however, some smaller items may have been added in to blank spaces later on.

Occasional lines under titles.

Regularly either a line or small device between items.

Two or three poems at most; presumably “Dr Lowths Bishop of London on the Death of his Daughter (Translated by my Father Feb: 28 1778)” (p. 92) and the item signed “EB” (p. 62).

“Elizabeth Church/ 1766” on inside-front cover.

Partially paginated by Church (up to p. 28 of 105).