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301. 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

302. 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

303. 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

304. 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

305. 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

306. 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

307. 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

308. 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

309. 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

310. 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