Clark MS 2008.023

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pp. 170–172.

Local title: The Universal Prayer.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

p. 156.

Local title: n/a

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

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vol. 1 p. 1.

Local title: n/a

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

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Vol. 1: Frequent; also occasional indications of print sources for anonymous or pseudonymous works.

Vol. 2: Occasional.

Vol. 3: Frequent at the beginning, then it drops off.

All four volumes: Bound in speckled calf; front and back boards partially or completely detached from spine.

Vol. 1: Single except for first poem

Vol. 2: Single

Vol. 3: Single except for first poem

Vol. 4: Single except for penultimate poem

Mostly in the hand of Jane Griffies Roscoe, otherwise likely William Roscoe

Vol. 2: Pencilled annotations on a few items, providing author names, titles, occasions.

Vol. 3: Subsequently pencilled-in title of the first poem, other annotations; this volume may be incomplete in the sense that spaces for titles (and sometimes authors) have been left at the tops of pages (though some of these have author name at the end).

Vol. 4: Like like volume 3, titles written in later in a lighter ink; titles generally seem to have been entered quickly in blank spaces originally intended for more elaborate titles; there is generally a rougher sense to this volume, with cross-outs, etc.

Decorative titles for first two volumes; in volumes 3 and 4, some spaces for titles (and authors) left for completion later; sometimes these are pencilled in.

Originally five volumes. Now only four, and it's unclear when the fifth one may have been lost. 

Vol. 1 has section subtitles.

Vol. 1: Yes. Since attributions are the general rule, where they are absent, that work is possibly original.

Vol. 2: Yes, at least one poem attributed to “Mr. R –" probably referring to William Roscoe.

Vol. 3: Yes, probably the opening poem to Julia.

Vol. 4: Yes, probably pp. 29–30.

Bookplates of Frederick Warburton Dunston and David H. Weinglass on front endpapers.

Inscription by Frederick Warburton Dunston on preliminary pages of volumes notes that he purchased them at Sotheby's in 1887; He suggests Joseph Mayer of Liverpool and his great-uncle Richard Roscoe as possible former owners.

Vol. 1: Paginated (by the compiler).

Vol. 2: Paginated (by the compiler, but only up to p. 7).

Vol. 3: Paginated (by the compiler, up to p. 160).

Vol. 4: Unpaginated (only pp. 1–2 paginated by the compiler).

Volumes 1–3 (not volume 4).