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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 Figure of Speech 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 Figure of Speech 67 68 70 72 74 75 77 79 81 83 85 87 89 91 93 95 97 99 101 103 105 107 109 111 112 113 114 115 118 121 124 127 129 x
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Horned figure with familiar, from A Book of Nonsense (1974), p. 50 Squat Ursula, from A Book of Nonsense (1974), p. 75* 137 139 Men in conical hats, from A Book of Nonsense (1974), p. 64 145 Figure of Speech 149 Aunty Vi, from A Book of Nonsense (1974), p. 68* 150 Aunty Flo, from A Book of Nonsense (1974), p. 67* 151 Aunty Mig, from A Book of Nonsense (1974), p. 69* 152 Uncle Jake, from A Book of Nonsense (1974), p. 71* 152 Aunty Jill, from A Book of Nonsense (1974), p. 70* 153 Figure of Speech 155 A professor from the MS of Gormenghast, from Mervyn Peake Review, no. 2 (Spring 1976), p. 19 O Here It Is and There It Is…, from A Book of Nonsense (1974), p. 46* Have a pear, from Peake Studies, vol. 4, no. 1 (Autumn 1994), p. 5 Figure of Speech Thorpe and Tintagieu, from Mr Pye (1953), p. 68 157 159 160 163 166 King and dog on beach, from A Book of Nonsense (1974), p. 32 167 Figure of Speech 168 Figure of Speech 171 Rhinoceros, London Zoo, from The Drawings of Mervyn Peake (1974), p. 41 Manifold Basket, B.F., from Peake Studies, vol. 2, no. 3 (Winter 1991), p. 47 Doctor Willy, from Peake’s Progress (1978), p. 292 172 175 177 Sally Devius, from Peake’s Progress (1978), p. 290 178 Four Undertakers, from Peake’s Progress (1978), p. 271 180 Two Undertakers, from Peake’s Progress (1978), p. 305 Figure of Speech Girls, dog and galleon, from Peake Studies, vol. 4, no. 1 182 185 (Winter 1994), back cover 187 Big nose, big feet, from A Book of Nonsense (1974), p. 36 188 Figure of Speech 190 Figure of Speech 192 Man and snake, from A Book of Nonsense (1974), p. 28 193 Bird on bird (not previously published) 194 Figure of Speech 197 Figure of Speech 199 Sweet horse, from A Book of Nonsense (1974), p. 34* 201 Stout figure with stick, from A Book of Nonsense (1974), p. 40 202 xi

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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

Figure of Speech

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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