Ride a Cock-Horse: Image for 'I Had a Little Nut Tree'
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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.
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.
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...
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...
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 child standing beneath a tree. Published in Jacob Grimm, Household Tales, illustrated by Mervyn Peake (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946). Undated.
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].
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).
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...