Ride a Cock-Horse: Type for 'I Had a Little Nut Tree'
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Printing plate etched with type for nursery rhyme from Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by Mervyn Peake (London: Chatto & Windus, 1940). Undated.
Printing plate etched with decorative border featuring characters from the story. Published in Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark, illustrated by Mervyn Peake (London: Chatto & Windus, 1941). Block is inscribed 'Mrs Peake'. Undated.
Printing plate etched with decorative border by Mervyn Peake drawn for the cover of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (London: Allan Wingate, 1954), featuring characters from Through the Looking Glass. Block inscribed 'Mrs Peake'. Card stuck to reverse of block featur...
Through the Looking Glass: Alice in the Soup Tureen
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Printing plate etched with image of Alice with the Red Queen and the White Queen. Mervyn Peake's illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass were first published by Zephyr Books, Stockholm in 1946 and in Britain by Allan Wingate, London in 1954. Block inscribe...
Printing plate etched with image of a girl and a prince riding a griffin. Published in Jacob Grimm, Household Tales, illustrated by Mervyn Peake (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946). Dated 1974 [presumably this was when the block was reused, probably to produce a print for a greetings card].
Extracts From the Poems of Oscar Wilde: 'Madonna Mia'
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Printing plate etched with image of a girl's face. Published as an illustration accompanying the poem 'Madonna Mia' in Mervyn Peake/Oscar Wilde: Extracts From the Poems of Oscar Wilde (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1980). Block inscribed 'Gill'. Undated [but used to print the Peake family's Chri...
'Gormenghast' Manuscript: Barquentine and Steerpike
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Printing plate photo-etched with image from one of the Gormenghast notebooks [Add MS 88931/1/3/15 f.139v-140] showing a drawing of Barquentine and Steerpike alongside Peake's autograph text. Undated [but must date from after 1948 as this is when the notebook was begun].
Printing plate etched with drawing by Mervyn Peake of oriental figure wearing a loin cloth and a pointed hat kneeling next to a snake wearing a crown. This image was published in Poems and Drawings by Mervyn Peake (London: Keepsake Press, 1965). Block inscribed 'Peake'. The image is dated 1956 bu...
Printing plate etched with drawing by Mervyn Peake of human-cat hybrid and human-donkey? hybrid, both raising their arms over their heads. This image was used for the Peake family Christmas card 1968. Larger version of Add MS 88931/13/6/21. Block inscribed 'Peake'. Undated.
Printing plate etched with sketch of man and dog by Mervyn Peake. Surface of wooden block inscribed 'Peake'. This image was used for the Peake family Christmas card of 1981. Undated.