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VI.H.4.

*VI.H.4: "Work in Progress"/Finnegans Wake Page Proofs: Specimen Page Proof of Tales Told of Shem and Shaun/Finnegans Wake I.6 (1929):


Material Description and Collation

The manuscript consists of 1 sheet (2 conjugate leaves) of white laid Arches paper, with only 3 pages of printed text (p. [4] is blank) in black ink and folded vertically in half, with no corrections or emendations.


Measurements

The sheet measures 21.0 x 33.0 cm. and the text block measures 10.7 x 8.1 cm. as in the published work.


Pagination

The pages are not numbered.


Contents

The manuscript is a printers’ page proof specimen for Tales Told of Shem and Shaun (Paris: Black Sun Press, June 1929; Slocum and Cahoon A36) with text from the "The Mookse and Gripes". See transition 6, 101.06–102.23, Tales Told of Shem and Shaun, pp. 1.04–5.11 as well as FW 152.20–154.14.


JJA Draft Code

Not recorded.


Dating

The manuscript is undated, but was probably set in early April 1929.


Other Markings

There are traces of rust from a paper clip on p. "1".


Publication

This manuscript has not been reproduced.


Notes

The font is 6pt. Carlson (as in the published work).