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A Devonshire verse miscellany : Miscellany c.1770.
Literary Manuscripts Leeds: Sources from The Brotherton Library, University of Leeds Available online
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- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--18th century.
- English poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (242 pages, 2 unnumbered pages)
- Summary:
- Comprises approximately 75 poems supposedly compiled in the West Country in the 1770s, some with clues to the locality of the scribe. The miscellany includes an unrecorded early poem on the subject of cricket, pp. 133-5
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference:Lt 125
- The compiler of the miscellany is unknown. Manuscript in ink, small 4to (196 x 160 mm); with a few excisions; written mostly in a single hand but with some additions on the endpapers in other hands; includes pagination and catchwords in brown ink
- Local Notes:
- Volume is bound in 18th century worn vellum with 'Poem's' [sic] lettered on the frontispiece cover.
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