BIB_ID
234537
Accession number
MA 6132
Creator
Payn, James, 1830-1898.
Display Date
1876.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2003.
Description
2 v. (539 p.), bound ; 23.3 cm
Notes
Dated Nov. 10, 1876 at end of text.
Pencil note on flyleaf reads "Authors Original Mss From S. Hugh Walpole Library July /45."
Old auction catalog description clipped and affixed to front free endpaper, marked in pencil "Christie July 2/45".
Vol 1: p. 1-281; vol. 2 p. 282-539.
Pencil note on flyleaf reads "Authors Original Mss From S. Hugh Walpole Library July /45."
Old auction catalog description clipped and affixed to front free endpaper, marked in pencil "Christie July 2/45".
Vol 1: p. 1-281; vol. 2 p. 282-539.
Provenance
Bookplate of W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey in both volumes; Vol. 2 also has bookplate of Brackenburn.
Summary
A working manuscript, written in pen and pencil principally on rectos of 539 sheets, but with extensive notes and additions on versos as well.
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