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.
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.
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...
Unpaginated page proofs (including illustrations) presumably for Mervyn Peake, The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb (London: J M Dent and Sons, 1962) comprising a gathering of four leaves corresponding to pp.1-8 of the printed edition (though two pages are out of sequence).
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)].
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.
Proofs for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
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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...