Clark MS 1994.001

• Major author

• Owner

  Used the volume to press flowers and leaves, gathered in 1872-1875, and 1904, with annotations; one of these annotations signed by herself.

• Primary compiler
• Major author

Regular. Many poems signed "Mary Woodyeare," "Mary Tibbits," or "MW." Other poems at the end of the volume attributed to "Dr. Drake" or "Francis Drake." 

Red morocco with decorative borders and spine. Gilt page edges. Marbled inside covers.

Single, except for annotations to pressed flowers.

A book structured upon the narrative of her life, compiled retrospectively. 

The volume was used to press flowers and leaves in the nineteenth-century by Tibbits's granddaughter Mary Isabella Hood, wife of the 3rd Viscount Hood, who wrote annotations for her no longer extant specimens. Annotations contained species, date, and place of picking. There are still two ferns (without any annotations) near the end of the volume.

Flower pressing one-hundred years later suggests book was valued as a keepsake.

Ambigraph book; the ambigraph section contains poems by Tibbits' cousin, Dr. Francis Drake.

Tibbits copied out her compositions in roughly chronological order, beginning with a story she wrote in 1774, at the age of 10, and continuing with additions up to about 1806.

Yes, primarily the compositions of Mary Woodyeare Tibbits; poems at the ambigraph end of the book are by Dr. Francis Drake. 

Many poems in predominant hand signed "Mary Woodyeare," "Mary Tibbits" or "MW."

Other poems at the end of the volume attributed to "Dr. Drake" or "Francis Drake."

One annotation of absent pressed flower signed "Mary Isabella Hood."

Paginated (by the compiler up to p. 101; ambigraph end unpaginated).