Proofs
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Proofs
Classmark: BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland/3/5/2
Creator(s): Crossley-Holland, Kevin
Date(s): c.1977-1983
Size and medium: 4 bundles, 7 files + 1 bound proof
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/18225
Collection group(s): Leeds Poetry | English Literature
Description
Proofs, drafts and research notes relating to Crossley-Holland's 'Norse Myths' Includes:
- Bound uncorrected proof copy (Pantheon), 1980 ([i-xiv], 247 pp.)
- 1 file containing final ts with ms amendments, [ca. 1979-1980] (i-xiii, 406 pp.)
- 1 file containing printer's plans for cover and text layout.
- Final ts draft with ms amendments [ca. 1978-1979] (i-xiv, 1-24 (glossary), 1-47 (introduction), 273 ff. (myths), 109 ff. (notes), 1-19 (bibliography)
- Ts draft with editor's comments in ms [ca. 1978-1979] (1-46 pp. (introduction), 391 ff. (text of myths interspersed with notes)
- 5 files containing a draft in 4 loose-leaf pads and 1 notebook titled The Norse myths (I-V) [ca. 1977-1978]. Book I: 61 ff.; Book II: 66 ff. (of which 3 are blank); Book III: 69 ff.; Book IV: 77 ff.; Book V: 76 ff. (of which 65 are blank)
- 1 file containing ms background notes for the myths. [ca.1977-1978] (107 ff.)
- 1 file containing miscellaneous ts and ms notes and illustrations relating to the book, including a letter from Downes Inge to Crossley-Holland dated 11 Feb 1983 (lacks middle part).
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