Du Maurier, George
£2,700
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
Description
Studies for Punch, pencil sketches and several pages of pencil manuscript, mostly in 1894-5, 138pp., with preliminary note by Gerard du Maurier, brown morocco gilt by Morrell, 22 x 17cm., corners slightly rubbed
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire
Note: The note by Gerard du Maurier erroneously states that the sketches were made in 1874-5 whereas in fact they were made in 1894-5. A further note, initalled D.P.W., 1956, notes that the dates in pencil on the verso page refers to the sketch on the recto page and indicates the date on which the completed drawing was reproduced in Punch. There is also a 5pp. ms of a revised passage of Trilby and a 2pp. ms. of a draft of a passage from The Martian.