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The last days of Pompeii : autograph manuscript, [ca. 1834].

BIB_ID
121179
Accession number
MA 247-248
Creator
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873.
Display Date
[ca. 1834].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (180, 131 p.), unbound ; ca. 27 cm
Provenance
Given by the author to Col. Henry Forrens D'Aginlar (?) in 1835; purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Summary
Written on the rectos of 180 p. (MA 247) and 131 p. (MA 248), containing the following portions of the novel: Book I, chapters 5, 8; Book II, chapters 4, 5, 9; Book III, chapters 2, 3; Book V, chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and last. With revisions and corrections throughout. MA 247 is followed by four blank leaves. MA 248 contains two additional leaves at end with notes relating to the provenance of the manuscript.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (30 cm)