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251. Add MS 88931/13/6/4

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Title:
Ride a Cock-Horse: Image for 'I Had a Little Nut Tree'
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with image of boy showing nut tree to the King of Spain's daughter. Published in Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by Mervyn Peake (London: Chatto & Windus, 1940). Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1940]
Extent:
1 item

252. Add MS 88931/13/6/5

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Title:
Ride a Cock-Horse: 'How Many Miles to Babylon?'
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with image of a boy in bed, holding up a candle to illuminate a large Babylonian figure. Published in Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by Mervyn Peake (London: Chatto & Windus, 1940). Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1940]
Extent:
1 item

253. Add MS 88931/13/6/8

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Title:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: White Rabbit
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with image of the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole. 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. This image was also u...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1954?
Extent:
1 item

254. Add MS 88931/13/6/10

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Title:
Household Tales: 'Our Lady's Child'
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with image of child standing beneath a tree. Published in Jacob Grimm, Household Tales, illustrated by Mervyn Peake (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946). Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1946]
Extent:
1 item

255. Add MS 88931/13/6/12

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Title:
Treasure Island: 'My Shore Adventure'
Scope & Content:
Printing plate (lacking woodblock mount) etched with image by Mervyn Peake of Jim Hawkins stood on the shore [of Skeleton Island?] looking across the water to some rocks. Published in Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, illustrated by Mervyn Peake (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1949).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1949]
Extent:
1 item

256. Add MS 88931/13/6/15

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Title:
Figure Wearing Pointed Hat Holding Sword
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with drawing by Mervyn Peake used for his daughter Clare Peake's twenty first birthday invitation. Undated [Clare Peake was twenty one in 1970].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1970?
Extent:
1 item

257. Add MS 88931/13/6/16

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Title:
Figure Wearing Pointed Hat Holding Bird
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with drawing by Mervyn Peake. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
mid 20th century
Extent:
1 item

258. Add MS 88931/13/6/17

Reference (shelfmark):
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Title:
Figure Wearing Bobble Hat Holding Mirror or Frame
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with drawing by Mervyn Peake. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
mid 20th century
Extent:
1 item

259. Add MS 88931/13/6/19

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Add MS 88931/13/6/19
Title:
'Harlequin Phoenix': Frontispiece
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with image of the 'Harlequin Phoenix' leaping from flames holding an unlit torch. Published in Thelma Niklaus, Harlequin Phoenix (London: Bodley Head, 1956). Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1956]
Extent:
1 item

260. Add MS 88931/13/6/21

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Title:
Human-Animal Hybrids (small)
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 of 1968. Smaller version of Add MS 88931/13/6/20. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1968?
Extent:
1 item

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