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1. Add MS 88931/13/6

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Title:
Printing Plates
Scope & Content:
Plates for letterpress printing etched with illustrations and drawings by Mervyn Peake. Some, if not perhaps all of these plates, were used to produce Christmas cards and other greetings cards sent by Maeve Gilmore on behalf of the Peake family.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1940-1981?]
Extent:
26 items

2. Add MS 88931/13/6/25

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Title:
Baby
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with a drawing of a baby by Mervyn Peake [probably his son Sebastian Peake]. This image was used for the Peake family Christmas card of 1965. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1965?
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 88931/13/6/7

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Title:
Alice: Border Illustration
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1954]
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 88931/13/6/18

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Title:
Figure With Snake
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1956
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 88931/13/6/24

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Title:
Nude Boy Holding Branch
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with drawing by Mervyn Peake. This image was used for a greetings card from Mervyn and Maeve Gilmore [see Add MS 88931/13/12]. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
mid 20th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 88931/13/6/20

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Title:
Human-Animal Hybrids (large)
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1968?
Extent:
1 file

7. Add MS 88931/13/6/22

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Title:
Dog Jumping up at Man
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1981?
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 88931/13/6/14

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Title:
'Gormenghast' Manuscript: Barquentine and Steerpike
Scope & Content:
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].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1948
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 88931/13/6/6

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Title:
The Hunting of the Snark: Title Page Border
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1941]
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 88931/13/6/11

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Title:
Household Tales: 'The Singing, Soaring Lark'
Scope & Content:
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].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1946]
Extent:
1 item

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