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.
Fildes, S[amuel] Luke. "The Empty Chair, Gad's Hill--Ninth of June 1870." This large wood-engraving, which is printed on a sheet of plate paper 44 cm. x 62 cm., depicts Dickens's study at Gad's Hill on the day of his death. It is hand colored. Richard Gimbel owned Fildes's original sketch of the scene; see entry H1797. -- A second copy: Another impression. The typefae in the title is altered. This copy is not colored.