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251. Add MS 88931/13/5/3

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Title:
Proofs for Household Tales
Scope & Content:
Galley proofs for Brothers Grimm, Household Tales (London: Methuen Children's Books, 1973) with illustrations by Mervyn Peake. Also includes full colour proofs for Eyre and Spottiswoode jacket illustration and two different proofs for Methuen jacket.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Nov 1972
Extent:
1 file

252. Add MS 88931/13/5/4

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Title:
Proofs for John Batchelor's Biography
Scope & Content:
Galley proofs for John Batchelor, Mervyn Peake, A Biographical and Critical Exploration (London: Duckworth, 1974). See Add MS 88931/13/3/16/13 for Maeve Gilmore's corrections and comments on the text.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1974
Extent:
1 file

253. Add MS 88931/13/5/5

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Title:
Proofs for Rhymes Without Reason
Scope & Content:
Contains: paste-up for jacket and black-and-white ozalid proofs for Mervyn Peake, Rhymes Without Reason (London: Methuen Children's Books, 1974), both with covering letter from editor Marcy Leavitt Thomas; full colour proofs with jacket proof.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Mar 1974-24 Apr 1974
Extent:
1 file

254. Add MS 88931/13/5/6

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Title:
Proofs for Treasure Island
Scope & Content:
Page proofs for Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (London: Methuen, 1976) with illustrations by Mervyn Peake.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1976
Extent:
1 oversize file

255. Add MS 88931/13/5/7

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Title:
Proofs of selected Bleak House illustrations
Scope & Content:
Contains three proofs of a drawing of Tuveydrop and two of a drawing of Snagsby by Mervyn Peake [presumably for The Drawings of Mervyn Peake (London: Davis-Poynter, 1974)].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1974]
Extent:
1 oversize file

256. Add MS 88931/13/5/8

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Title:
Proofs of Gormenghast character drawings
Scope & Content:
Proofs of six black and white drawings by Mervyn Peake of characters from Gormenghast: Fuchsia Groan; Cora and Clarice Groan; Countess of Groan; Irma Prunesquallor; Dr Prunesquallor and Fuchsia; Abiatha Swelter and kitchen urchin. Printed underneath the drawings are quotes describing the charact...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1968]
Extent:
1 oversize file

257. Add MS 88931/13/5/9

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Title:
Proofs for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Scope & Content:
Proofs for a Libanus Press edition of Alice illustrated by Mervyn Peake [not ultimately published]. Comprises: two letters from Michael Mitchell of Libanus Press, Collins Harvill Publishers to Fabian Peake; two sets of 'Specimen sheets for Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jun 1990-3 Nov 2000
Extent:
1 file

258. Add MS 88931/13/6/1

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Title:
Ride a Cock-Horse: Title Illustration
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with image of woman riding a horse. Published in Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by Mervyn Peake (London: Chatto & Windus, 1940). This image was also used on the Peake family's 1979 Christmas card - see Add MS 88931/13/12. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1940]
Extent:
1 item

259. Add MS 88931/13/6/2

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Title:
Ride a Cock-Horse: Mother and Child
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with image of woman holding baby. 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 file

260. Add MS 88931/13/6/3

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Title:
Ride a Cock-Horse: Type for 'I Had a Little Nut Tree'
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1940?
Extent:
1 item