Houghton MS Am 1919

• Primary compiler

Never.

Pre-bound paperbook. Two blank pages between the last item and the index; no writing in the gutter.

Marbled pasteboards.

Single.

Three crossed out lines and a pen trial after the last item, possibly in the same hand, but much messier. This looks like an attempt at an addition that failed because the writer ran out of ink in their pen. The writing is too faint to read after the first two lines, and the cross-outs obscure it, but it says something like "A Coward’s heart is in his backs[?]/ A frog he would a wooing go …"

 Infrequent cross-outs but overall very much a fair copy book. 

Faded writing filled-in in pencil. The pencil also filled-in the blanks on p. 54: “C— L—l” is now “Co Lovel.” On the same page, the pencil underlined the word “Brazen,” and wrote another word next to it (that I can’t quite make out). Pencil underlines on p. 58, as well.

Seemingly a round ink stain at the bottom of the spine on pp. 28–29 that blead through multiple pages.

Swirled lines between items and under titles throughout the book. 

Likely; not many First Line Index hits.

"Mrs. Neale" on front flyleaf and title page.

Notes in pencil on inside-front-cover by later owners and/or archivists.

“Bought of Westale[?]. 18/11/56 [?]Black” written in pen on the title page.

Paginated (in the top left-hand corner, and in the format "P.[#]."

Yes, at the beginning of the manuscript with both page and item number.

Yes: "Miscellany Poems Anno 1731." Definite effort at decoration here with swirls beneath the title, though where the title is repeated again below this original title, the ink is very smudged.