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VI.H.10.

*VI.H.10: "Work in Progress"/Finnegans Wake Page Proofs: Unmarked Copy of the First Setting of Proofs of Haveth Childers Everywhere/Finnegans Wake III.3B (1930):

Material Description and Collation

The manuscript consists of 9 sheets (36 leaves: 67 printed and 5 blank pages: the reverse of the title-leaf, the reverse of the printer’s imprint & copyright page and pp. [70]–[72]) of pulp paper, folded in quarto, printed on both sides in black ink; the pages are machine trimmed on all sides. There are no corrections or revisions.

Measurements

The sheets measure 56.0 x 38.0 cm.

Pagination

There are printed page numbers "7"–"70" in the center of bottom margin and "3" on the title page, "71, 73 and 74" on pp. [69], [71], and [72], all in the center of the bottom margin in pencil, probably by the printer.

Contents

The manuscript is an unmarked copy of the first setting of proofs of the Haveth Childers Everywhere (Paris and New York: Henry Babou & Jake Kahane and The Fountain Press, 1930; Slocum and Cahoon A41). Also see FW 532.06–554.

JJA Draft Code

III.3B.15′.

Dating

The manuscript is undated but was set in May 1930.

Other Markings

Included with the manuscript is a sheet of pulp paper that was folded vertically in half to form a folder. On p. [1] of the folder, written in blue ink in an unidentified hand: "HCE proofs". On p. [3] of the folder, the printer most likely wrote a computation in lead pencil of the page numbers: "74 [+] 2 [+] 4 [=] 80"; also in lead pencil on p. [71], presumably written by the printer: "Justification | et achevé [illegible word] d’impremier".

Publication

This manuscript has not been reproduced, but the marked copy (BL MS 47484b, fs. 462r–496r) has been reproduced in black and white photo-facsimile on JJA 59.208–275.