F30: Revisions in proof for The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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Title: F30: Revisions in proof for The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Creator: From the Collection: Gimbel, Richard
Contributor: 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: English
French
Italian

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

GEN MSS 1998

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Container / Volume

Box 2, folder 24

Access: Public
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Citation: Manuscripts in the Richard Gimbel Collection of Charles Dickens. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.