*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):
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.
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.
The pages are not numbered.
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.
Not recorded.
The manuscript is undated, but was probably set in early April 1929.
There are traces of rust from a paper clip on p. "1".
This manuscript has not been reproduced.
The font is 6pt. Carlson (as in the published work).