Poems breathed forth by the nobel Hadassas, and The Unfortunate Florinda, by Lady Hesther Pulter

A collection of poetry, beginning on flyleaf and then on ff.2r-130v; from back, inverted, on f.1r, 2v-36v, is an incomplete prose romance, The Unfortunate Florinda. Detached, previusly inserted matter includes 3 ff. (paginated 3-7) of 62 heroic couplets from Abelard to Eloisa, identified as by Judith Madan, ca.1720; and 3 ff. bearing genealogies, arms and an account of "Ley, Earl of Marleborough".

Bound in reversed calf, spine lettered. Poems predominantly in a scribal hand with insertions and revisions in two other hands, one of them apparently Hesther Pulter's.