Figure of Speech
Clown on a smoking horse, from Mervyn Peake: The Man and his Art (2006), p. 5
Figure of Speech
Flat face, from A Book of Nonsense (1972), p. 72
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Rhymes without Reason (1944), dust wrapper
Upon My Golden Backbone
All Over the Lilac Brine!
The Sunlight Falls upon the Grass
The Crocodile
The Giraffe
My Uncle Paul of Pimlico
It Makes a Change
What a Day It’s Been!
How Mournful to Imagine
The Jailor and the Jaguar
The Camel
I Wish I Could Remember
I Waxes and I Wanes, Sir
The Hippopotamus
A Languorous Life
Sensitive, Seldom and Sad
Stylized horse (not previously published)
One Day When They Had Settled Down, from Peake Studies,
vol. 5, no. 4 (April 1998), back cover*
Again! Again! and Yet Again, from Peake Studies, vol. 5,
no. 4 (April 1998), p. 22*
Uncle George, from Peake Studies, vol. 5, no. 4 (April 1998),
p. 23*
The King of Ranga-Tanga-Roon, from Peake Studies, vol. 5,
no. 4 (April 1998), p. 25*
I Cannot Give You Reasons, from Peake Studies, vol. 5, no. 4
(April 1998), p. 26*
Figure of Speech
A Gormenghast professor, from Mervyn Peake: The Man and his Art (2006), p. 84
Rottcodd in his hammock, from Peake Studies, vol. 7, no. 1
(November 2000), pp. 18–19
Royal couple, from A Book of Nonsense (1974), p. 44
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