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311. 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

312. 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

313. 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

314. 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

315. Add MS 88931/13/6/9

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Title:
Through the Looking Glass: Alice in the Soup Tureen
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1954?
Extent:

1 item

316. 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

317. 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

318. 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

319. Add MS 88931/13/6/13

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Title:
Extracts From the Poems of Oscar Wilde: 'Madonna Mia'
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1967?]
Extent:
1 item

320. 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