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BC MS Lt 11, p. 61: The opening of George Plaxton's poem
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Poetical commonplace book

c.1710-c.1820

Large collection of satires, ballads, and songs (with a few pieces in prose), apparently compiled by members of the Smyth family of Heath, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. At least the first 260 pp. we...

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BC MS Lt 44, p. 63:
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Collection of miscellaneous prose and verse

c.1730-1735

Remains of a formerly bound and consecutively paginated collection of miscellaneous prose and verse, now reduced to a number of loose sheets and gatherings, in various different hands. As recto-paged ...

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