Thirty three finished drawings, eight rough sketches and a partial set of pulls (first proofs) of Mervyn Peake's illustrations, some with captions in Peake's hand.
Pulls (first proofs) of illustrations, cut and pasted onto card with captions in pencil in Mervyn Peake's hand. Proposed dimensions of printed drawings have been inscribed on mount. Partial set comprising 25 of the 31 illustrations: King of Hearts: 'Frontispiece'; Crocodile: 'Chapter 2. How dot...
Comprises: two printed cards with illustration by Mervyn Peake of a nude boy holding a branch, from Maeve and Mervyn Peake, 1 Drayton Gardens, London SW10, undated [1960-1968]; two printed Christmas cards with illustration by Mervyn Peake of face [for Oscar Wilde's poem 'Madonna Mia'], 1967; pri...
Two sketchbooks: one mostly containing pencil drawings of cats; the other containing several sketches in ink of various subjects, with newspaper cuttings of images from 1969-1973[presumably for inspiration].
Comprises three parts: A: Loose leaves of handwritten notes with stage directions, summaries, character notes and exposition of themes. B: Loose leaves of revised manuscript, entitled ‘Act Two’. C: Notebook entitled ‘Act 3’. Manuscript with minor revisions. At the end of the volume there are not...
Loose leaves found in envelope inscribed 'For Maeve' (envelope has printed label 'Ordinary Level Human Biology, Paper I' dated 19 Nov 1975). There are multiple copies of many of the poems. There are autograph corrections to one of the typescripts for 'It Worries Me to Know'. Undated. Poems: ‘O’...
Unfinished play for television or film. Comprises two autograph notebooks: A: ‘The Four Old Men’, entitled ‘The Widowers’ inside the volume. Heavily revised. Includes small detailed drawings of characters and other figures. There are screen directions [in Maeve Gilmore’s hand]. Undated. B: ‘The ...
Loose leaves including: manuscript fragments from early draft (including Dr Moulter's speech and drawings of Moulter and Old Devius in bed pointing shotgun); song lyrics for the undertakers, Sally and Percy and Dr Willy; character notes; part of corrected typescript from Act III, plus manuscript...