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p. 193.

Local title: A monody to the memory of Lady Lucy Lyttleton.

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p. 171.

Local title: The fireside.

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p. 129.

Local title: The universal prayer.

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p. 121.

Local title: Elegy on a young married lady.

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p. 39

Local Title: `An ode made by a gentleman at the conclusion of his travels'

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p. 11.

Local title: Written at midnight in a thunder-storm.

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p. 94

Local title: Indifference—an admired poem.

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p. 202.

Local title: Epitaph on Mrs. Hawkesworth.

Attributed author: Dr. Hawkesworth.

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p. 30.

Local title: An elegy written in a country churchyard.

Attributed author: Thomas Gray.

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p. 3

Local title: Wrote on her birthday.

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p. 165.

Local title: Verses, written by a lady at Bath; and sent to her husband a few days before she died.

Attributed author: a lady. 

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p. 171 

Local Title: Tomorrow

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Adaptation: In imitation of Edmund Waller

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p. 148

Local title: Edwin & Angelina. A Ballad

Attributed author: Dr. Goldsmith

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Other: Note at end: Bombay 1773

p. 7.

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p. 98.

Local title: An elegy, describing the melancholy event of a licentious amour.

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p. 34.

Local Title: Messiah. A sacred eclogue: written in imitation of Virgil's Pollio.

Attributed author: Alexander Pope.

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p. 148

Local title: Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College.

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Regular; many popular poets, notably popular female poets.

Post-bound. Some of the pages at the beginning of the ms have been folded and unfolded, which might suggest the book was bound after compilation.

Contemporary half-calf over marbled-board, gold-tooled.

Spine with title: "Miscellanies Vol. I. Poetical Extracts."

Yes.

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.

Single.

Compiled during Forbes' travels and continued after he returned to London in 1784.

p. 221 decorative pink footnotes; the last line of the final poem is also written in pink and initialed by the compiler.

Many items followed by a place and date, presumably of where they were first read or copied.

Items are numbered up to p. 104 (#54). 

Titles written in larger font than the poem's text.

Usually a device or line separating items.

Sections of poems by a single author (e.g., 2–13 Elizabeth Carter, 125–135 Pope, 153–162 Shenstone). Displays an interest in individual poets (as opposed to individual poems).

Unclear if the book was compiled chronologically or not because while the dates are generally chronological, there are a few aberrations (e.g., p. 176 and 180).

Yes. The final poem is likely original because there are no FLI hits and it is initialed by the compiler. The poem on p. 82 attributed to "Alexis" might also be original.

Inscription on title page: In diem natalem Jam. Forbes 19th May 1766 - Bombay - Aet: 17. [On the birthday of James Forbes 19th May 1766. Bombay. Age 17.]

Paginated 1–223, [5].

Rare footnotes.

Yes, inscribed: "In diem natalem Jam. Forbes 19th May 1766—Bombay—Aet: 17."