BIB_ID
286871
Accession number
MA 78.1-6
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1868.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1890.
Description
6 v. (421 p.), bound ; 32.1 cm
Notes
Includes extensive revisions and some notes to the printer in Collins' hand. Also includes occasional notes in pencil, presumably made by the printer.
Includes passages in v. 3 written in the hand of Harriet Graves, the daughter of Caroline Graves, Collins' love interest and life partner.
The manuscript is divided into 6 volumes: v. 1 includes weekly parts 1-5, or p. 1-63 [i.e. 66]; v. 2 includes weekly parts 6-11, or p. 63A-133 [i.e. 67-139]; v. 3 includes weekly parts 12-17, or p. 134-206 [i.e. 140-215]; v. 4 includes weekly parts 18-21, or p. 207-265 [i.e. 216-275]; v. 5 includes weekly parts 22-27, or p. 266-340 [i.e. 276-348]; v. 6 includes weekly parts 28-32, or p. 341-413 [i.e. 349-421].
With author's signed and dated attestation on title page.
Includes passages in v. 3 written in the hand of Harriet Graves, the daughter of Caroline Graves, Collins' love interest and life partner.
The manuscript is divided into 6 volumes: v. 1 includes weekly parts 1-5, or p. 1-63 [i.e. 66]; v. 2 includes weekly parts 6-11, or p. 63A-133 [i.e. 67-139]; v. 3 includes weekly parts 12-17, or p. 134-206 [i.e. 140-215]; v. 4 includes weekly parts 18-21, or p. 207-265 [i.e. 216-275]; v. 5 includes weekly parts 22-27, or p. 266-340 [i.e. 276-348]; v. 6 includes weekly parts 28-32, or p. 341-413 [i.e. 349-421].
With author's signed and dated attestation on title page.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1890.
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