F30: Revisions in proof for The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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Description
- Title
- F30: Revisions in proof for The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- Creator
- From the Collection: Gimbel, Richard
- Contributor
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From the Collection: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
From the Collection: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 - Published / Created
- undated
- Description
- Revisions in proof for The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Autograph manuscript on page proof of 106 leaves; on 16 pages; containing approximately 15 words, and scattered editorial marks, in the hand of Dickens. There are 209 pages of printed text in these leaves of proof which Dickens gave to S. Luke Fildes to guide him in illustrating the novel. The full text of the novel is here, with a duplicate set of gathering M (pages 161-176), one leaf of galleys, and three fragmentary pieces of proof. All is described in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, edited by Margaret Cardwell (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1972), on pages [256]-266.
- Provenance
- Gift of Richard Gimbel, circa 1920-1969.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been partially digitized.
- Language
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English
French
Italian
Item Location
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- GEN MSS 1998
- Search for Additional Digitized Material in This Collection
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- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Manuscripts in the Richard Gimbel Collection of Charles Dickens
- Series I: Manuscripts, circa 1830-1869
- THIS ITEM F30: Revisions in proof for The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- Container / Volume
- Box 2, folder 24
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Manuscripts in the Richard Gimbel Collection of Charles Dickens. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 16249528
- Object ID (OID)
- 16598970