Beinecke Osborn c143

• Primary compiler
• Major author

• Owner

  On the back fly-leaf: "Mary Dodd at Joseph Dodds Sawyer Kelsall Cheshire."

Never.

Full calf; gilt decoration on spine.

In gilt on spine: "Poems" (despite relatively few poems and the book's other uses).

Spotted fore-edge.

Drawing of a man on the back fly-leaf.

Single with domestic accounts in a different hand.

Set up to be a manuscript miscellany (with an address to the reader, suggesting they were expecting/hoping for an audience) but intentions not fulfilled. The back of the book contains a memoranda of domestic account in another hand, dated 1837–1838, recording purchases from the baker, butcher, and ale merchant, and listing expenses related to "club nights."

Written on the flyleaf, in the same hand as the ownership mark: "Two shillings for the notice and certificate you must give notice to the superintendent Registrar the marriage may be solemnized by the production of the Registrar's ceritificate."

Large-script titles.

Heavy horizontal lines separating titles and poem texts of one poem from the next.

The collection is prefaced by a lighthearted poem addressed to the reader.

Six poems befitting title "Poems. 1796" (recto sides only), followed by numerous blank pages, then the ambigraph section, presumably by Mary Dodd, recording domestic memoranda.

Yes, seemingly all original.

Back of the book signed "Mary Dodd at Joseph Dodds Sawyer Kelsall Cheshire"–apparently 1837f, but could be an indication of location.

Unpaginated (pencilled-in folios likely by a cataloguer).

Yes, decorated.