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Wallace Mary Anne, Wallace Alfred Russel , Wallace Herbert Edward , Purland Theodosius , Townsend Miss , Ali , Neale , Moseley Henry Nottidge |
| Description: |
36 proofs of illustrations for A R Wallace's autobiography "My Life" (London, Chapman & Hall, 1905) captioned in A. R. Wallace's and at least one other hand; incomplete set enclosed in an exercise-book cover; comprising: 5. Proof illustration showing part of a letter and cartoon, with the printed caption "My Last Letter from Dr. Purland." The cartoon shows a man with a knife in one hand holding a cat by its tail. The proof sheet is stamped on the top left "First Proof - 7 Sep 1905" and annotated in ink in A. R. Wallace's? hand "My Life. (Dr. Wallace)". Place: Amazon Notes: Two portrait photographs of A. R. Wallace were transferred to more appropriates items or series. Proof pages approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm. Reproduced in Wallace, Alfred Russel, "My Life" (London 1905). All fairly dirty on the edges with inky fingerprint marks. 24 proof sheets are approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm, 12 approximately 23 cm x 17 cm. Most are on thick white paper without printed captions or numbers, three on thinner paper with printed text. Possibly from two or three proofs made on different dates? Both this file and WP6/8/21 contain proofs of illustrations from both vols 1 and 2 of "My Life", both incomplete. The two have not been merged because they appear to have been separated into two files by A. R. Wallace himself, though this is dubious and the reason not apparent. |
