Decorations - hand-drawn

Small decorative drawings at end of each poem – e.g. feather, angel, trumpet.

Humorous diagram labeled "A Bill of Fare."

Drawing of a man on the back fly-leaf.

First and third items presented very ornately.

Detailed ink illustrations for final set of items (pp. 45–64).

Decorative presentation of many items, but not necessarily in a unified pattern.

"On a skeleton sitting on a pile of dead men's bones" is illustrated by a pen drawing.

Pen drawings (doodlings) on verso of page 129. 

Inside-front-cover beautiful coloured illustration of a house.

Pencil drawings: [first page] emblem with a ship; [opposite title page] cornucopia; [title page] lyre; [second title page] Strawberry Hill.

First page has what seems to be hand-drawn devices with mottos: "The Helicon Bag and A tout le monde."

Poems are copied with large, decorative lettering for titles up to second section.

Six numbered tables: the muses, explorers of New World, regions of Italy, seas of the world, etc.

Three pasted-in pen drawings: an outdoor scene (p. {23}) signed Mary Rogers, an illustration of a poem called “An old blind mans ditty - sung slow to a little instrument” (p. 39) (seemingly in a different style than the Rogers illustrations), and a cottage scene (p. 41) signed Mary Rogers.

Twenty-four watercolours and pen and ink sketches, mostly of ships under sail or approaching harbours. Subjects also include the Eddystone Lighthouse; a midshipman; a sailor with a wooden leg; Dandies; an English cottage; and an incomplete copy of Samuel Elmer's Snared Hare.

Calligraphic flourishes.

Decorative "Finis" at the end of each poem.

Pasted on the first flyleaf: two watecolor drawings of birds, signed Q.H. Pasted inside back cover: two watercolor drawings of birds, drawn by "John Harris, aged 14, 1822."

The volume also contains many drawings, including a detailed pencil drawing of a peacock, chicken, and turkey; a pen sketch of Duns Scotus accompanied by a humorous poem; and a small series of colored sketches labeled "Drawn by Caroline when a little girl on hearing a conversation upon the powers of the absorbent vessels in the human frame."

Occasional flourishes at the ends of items that finish the page.

Occasional color illustrations and several illuminations: title page flowers; p. 14 Hercules; p. 25 rose; p. 28 flowers; p. 29 bird and sun; p. 33 urn; p. 105 urn; p. 163 rose.

Some decorative fonts; consistently careful printing and attention to aesthetic.

Interesting bird devices to mark the ends of items on pp. 164 and 176.

Manicule at the end of p. 153 next to an annotation.

Quite a few handdrawn illustrations (on verso side). 

First page is a frontispiece with a finely drawn device with name.

Calligraphic titles and words.

One coloured flower drawing pasted in.

Illustrations in pencil and in ink on several pages throughout volume, especially following longer poems.

Calligraphic embellishments of titles and capitals.

Many decorative headers above titles; decorations at the ends of poems – all hand-drawn. Often verging on drawings, but they don't seem to illustrate the poem. 

Decorative borders around many pages (depending on line lengths).

Volume 1 illustrated with frontispiece showing the author's self portrait; other illustrations throughout the text.

Significant decorative features.

Elaborate signatures to every item in the first part of the book, but variation in formats.

Includes many watercolours, mostly floral vignettes, but also including depictions of the mouth of the Frith of Forth, a dandy, and two demons (Mr. Ringtail and Mr. Noseworthy) playing billiards.

Decorative device between most entries.

Decorative border around dedicatory poem.

Many calligraphic titles.

Rather ornate capital letters.

Titles tend to be printed somewhat decoratively.

In vol. 1 (M.a.53) there is a silhouette of Dixon by his granddaughter, Laura Beercroft. 

Fairly frequent decorative touches with pen, including some bird drawings.

[After the poetry section] p. 89 there's a detailed fifteen figure drawing of a scientific experiment, described in prose on pp. 111–115.

[Again, after the poetry section] p. 85 decorative swirl on otherwise blank page.

Ink and wash landscape drawing on the main title page. 

Title pages on pp. 1, 24 and 183 all include coloured ink (red and yellow). 

Vol. 1: p. 63 pencil drawing of a flower and a man's face.

Vol. 2: Drawing of a caterpillar on p. 84, annotated: “This Catterpillar I saw in my father’s Garden 1736 at Margarets, Rochester. T.A.”

Sketches throughout. 

Sometimes whimsical artistic elements, see p. 9. 

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