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Add MS 47462
- Record Id:
- 032-002103765
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002103765
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000042.0x0000bf
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 47462
- Title:
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EDWARD LEAR, 'History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipplepopple', a nonsense story, 'Written & illustrated for Lady Charlotte [Mary] & the Hon bles [William] Hugh [Spencer] & [William] Reginald Wentworth- Fitzwilliam' [children of William, 6th Earl Fitzwilliam]; Nice, Feb. 1865. Autograph. Apparently the original draft, first published (with some verbal differences) in Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets, 1871, pp. 54-73. Of the pen-and-ink illustrations in the MS. two only are within the text, the rest being mounted together at the end of the volume, ff. 36-42. Followed by other autograph works, viz.:-(1) Nonsense alphabet, in verse, beg. 'A was some Ants', with a pen-and-ink drawing to accompany each letter, n.d. This is one of several nonsense alphabets made by Lear for children of his acquaintance and corresponds exactly with none of the published ones (on such alphabets see A. Davidson, Edward Lear, 1938, pp. 210, 211). ff. 9-34;-(2) Illustrated version of the nursery rhyme, 'Highdiddle-diddle', n.d. First published, in facsimile, by Constance, Lady Strachie, in Query Leary Nonsense, 1911, pp. 48-49; the original was then in the possession of Mrs W. Vaughan (Miss Madge Symonds) and was believed to have been made for her eldest sister, Janet Symonds, having been preserved by Mrs John Addington Symonds, her mother (op. cit., p.21). f.35. Paper; ff. i+42. Folio. A.D. 1865, n.d. Signed binding of red morocco, gold-tooled, by Zaehnsdorf. Item no. 415 in W. H. Robinson's Catalogue no.
80, 1950 (see cutting at f.i). Presented by an anonymous gentleman and Messrs W. H. Robinson, Ltd., Pall Mall.
- Scope & Content:
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Joseph Zaehnsdorf, bookbinder: Bound, 19th-20th cent.
Bindings ENGLISH: Red morocco, gold-tooled, by J. Zaehnsdorf: 19th-20th cent.
Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: E. Lear; pen-and-ink illustrations for nonsense story, etc.: 1865, n.d.
includes:
- ff. 1-7b, 36-42 Edward Lear, artist and author: 'History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipplepopple', with illustrations: 1865.
- ff. 9-35 Poetry: E. Lear (d. 1888): nonsense alphabet etc.: bef. 1888.: Autogr.
- ff. 9-35 Edward Lear, artist and author: Nonsense alphabet, etc.: n.d.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002103765
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002103765
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_47462 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1865
- End Date:
- 1865
- Date Range:
- Feb 1865
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Custodial History:
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William Horsley Robinson Ltd; Pall Mall: Presented: in 1951.
- Exhibitions:
- Stuff and Nonsense, Falmouth Art Gallery, Falmouth, 22 June 2019 - 7 September 2019
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)