Samuel Beckett
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Holy Bible: The Comprehensive Teacher's Bible
London: S. Bagster and Sons, n.d.
Reading traces on: OT_1*, OT_2, OT_4, OT_6, OT_26, OT_40*, OT_41*, OT_73, OT_74, OT_103*, OT_104*, OT_165*, OT_169*, OT_170*, OT_171*, OT_174*, OT_222*, OT_372*, OT_386, OT_435*, OT_463*, OT_464*, OT_489, OT_510*, OT_513, OT_535, OT_547, OT_548*, OT_549, HELPS_17*, NT_1*, NT_24*, NT_39*, NT_40, NT_64*, NT_65, NT_70, NT_85, NT_117*, NT_118, NT_128*, NT_133*, NT_137*, NT_138*, NT_139*, NT_140*, NT_158*, NT_159, NT_160*, NT_161*, NT_162, NT_169*, NT_171*, NT_174*, NT_175*, NT_177*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: - corner of page 177 folded down; - small photograph postcard inserted at page 426 (Ecclesiastes vii — xii); - ribbon at 180 Revelation VII-XI
In the manuscript of En attendant Godot on page 05r, Lévy (Estragon) describes the maps of 'The Holy Land' in the Bible in a way that resembles the map in this copy. Beckett quotes from Deuteronomy (4:31), Nehemiah (9:31), Lamentations (3:22–3) and the Psalms / Proverbs (12:10) on page 04r of the second typescript of Not I, MS-UoR-1227-7-12-3.
Corneille, Pierre: La Galerie du palais
 Manchester: Manchester University Press; London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1920
Thomas B. Rudmose-Brown (ed.)
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Inscription: 'Samuel B. Beckett / Trinity College / Dublin - / Michaelmas Term - 1923'
Reading traces on: 7*, 8*, 52*, 57*, 60*, 68, 75*, 79*, 85. (*: page contains marginalia)
Dante Alighieri: La Divine comédie
Paris: Collection des Grands Classiques Français et Etrangers, n.d.
Artaud de Montor (translation)
Reading traces on: 34, 37, 41, 42, 43, 44*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: - page 395 has been folded down in past
Figueiredo, José Nunes de and António Gomes Ferreira: Compêndio de Gramàtica Portuguesa
Lisbon: Livraria sá da Costa Editora, 1968
Reading traces on: 23*, 25, 47, 63*, 79*, 85*, 92, 137*, 145*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: - bookseller's stamp; - corner of page 155 folded down at some point
Hölderlin, Friedrich: Sämtliche Werke
Leipzig: Insel Verlag, [1926]
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Inscription: 'SB / 24/12/37'
Reading traces on: 62, 87, 88, 89, 90, 440, 441, 442, 445, 453*, 454, 466*, 467, 469*, 471, 472*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Kant, Immanuel: Werke, Vol. XI
Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1921
Ernst Cassirer (ed.)
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Reading traces on: 5, 13, 22, 28, 30, 46, 68, 97, 109, 135, 137, 140*, 142*, 144*, 145, 149, 156, 157, 159, 163*, 164, 165, 169, 179, 181, 207, 208*, 218*, 222, 242, 244*, 247*, 251, 259, 261, 264, 265, 276, 278, 281, 284*, 295*, 305, 316, 333*, 334*, 339*, 340, 343, 344, 347*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: - 11 volumes; - inserted at the back is a four-page carbon copy of a typed list with all the titles of works included in the eleven volumes (with their original date of publication)
 on page(s): 5 [zone 1]
Lafenestre, George: Molière
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1909
Reading traces on: 34*, 35*, 36*, 100*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: front cover missing
Molière: Théâtre complet, Vol. 2
Paris: Bibliothèque Hachette, n.d.
Inscription: S. B. Beckett / July 1926
Reading traces on: 206*, 207*, 212*, 234, 257*, 258*, 259, 268*, 314*, 315*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: - volume III is missing; - marginalia: volume 2: from La Princesse d'Élide: 206-207 / 212 / 234; from Tartuffe: 257-9 / 268 / 314-5
Otto, Emil: German Conversation-Grammar; Method Gaspey-Otto-Sauer for the Study of Modern Languages
Heidelberg: Julius Groos, 1930
Reading traces on: 79*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Proust, Marcel: À la recherche du temps perdu: Le Temps retrouvé **
Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1929
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Reading traces on: 7*, 9*, 10*, 13, 14, 15*, 16*, 18*, 20*, 21*, 22, 23, 24, 25*, 26, 27, 28, 29*, 30*, 34*, 40*, 41, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48*, 49, 59, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 72, 73, 77, 79, 80*, 81, 90, 98, 100, 101, 104, 110*, 114, 125*, 168*, 172*, 174*, 177, 178, 227*, 235*, 236*, 237, 238*, 239, 240*, 241*, 242*, 243*, 244*, 245, 246, 251*, 256*, 257, 258, 260, 261, lastpage*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Renard, Jules: Le Journal de Jules Renard 1887–1910, Vol. 1
Paris: François Bernouard, 1927
Reading traces on: 8, 28, 34, 38, 39, 43, 50, 55, 59, 60, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 81, 82, 89, 91, 92, 98, 100, 101, 103, 104, 105, 108, 111, 114, 115, 117, 119*, 122, 125, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 136, 140, 141, 147, 162, 163, 165, 166, 168, 170, 171, 173, 174, 175*, 176, 177, 179, 180, 182, 192, 193, 194, 197, 198, 199, 202, 211, 214, 216, 223*, 243, 262, 275, 278, 282, 303, 304, 310, 311, 314, 315, 317, 318, 326, 355, 356. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: 4 volumes- volume 1: 1887–1896; volume 2: 1897–1901; volume 3: 1902–1905; volume 4: 1906–1910; - volume 1 for the set: Number 752 of 3075 copies; - volume 1: corner of bottom page 28 has been folded down at some point
on page(s): 59 [zone 3]
Shakespeare, William: Macbeth
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922
A.W. Verity, M.A. (ed.)
Inscription: 'm / S. B. Beckett. / Portora. / VIth Form / September 1922'
Reading traces on: tp1*, 6*, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19*, 21, 23*, 24, 25, 26, 27, 31, 34, 37*, 38*, 41, 42, 43, 46, 48, 51, 52*, 56, 57, 59, 60, 67, 68, 72, 73*, 78, backflyleafverso*, insidebackcover. (*: page contains marginalia)
Tasso, Torquato: Gerusalemme liberata
Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1923
6th ed.
Inscription: Samuel B. Beckett / May 1925
Reading traces on: 1*, 2*, 3*, 4*, 5*, 6*, 7*, 8*, 9*, 30*, 31*, 54*, 55*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: The book is heavily annotated, whereby two modes discernible (similar to other TCD books): ink, black and blue pen, and pencil underlining and annotation tend to be translations of specific words/lines; coloured pencil tend to be underlining and crosses against passages, ie contextual annotation. Annotations continue to the end of Canto X, after that, nothing. Sample scans of pages 2-9 made.
Verlaine: Œuvres poétiques complètes
Paris: Gallimard Pléiade, 1968 [1962]
Reading traces on: insert*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: - book ribbons at 722 and 818; - corner of page 658 has been folded down in past; - an insert contains first lines of Verlaine, together with the classification as given in the book, ie F.G. = Fetes Galantes, S= Sagesse, P.S. = Poemes saturniens
Beckett refers to the last lines of Paul Verlaine's sonnet 'Mon rêve familier', from the first section ('Melancholia') of his Poèmes saturniens, in the French manuscript of Molloy (MS-HRC-SB-4-6, page 24v).
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Schriften, Vol. 1
Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1960
Inscription: inside cover: 'RENATE HANDKE, / To Samuel Beckett / Germany, 9-25-67' flyleaf: "Nicht wie die Welt ist, / ist das Mystische, / sondern, daß sie ist..." / (L. Wittgenstein) "Ich hätte dieses Werk / gerne zur Ehre Gottes / geschrieben ...." / (L. Wittgenstein, / "The Brown Book")
Reading traces on: 24*, 26*, 185*, 278insertrecto*, 278insertverso*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: The annotations appear to have been made by Renate Handke; only a sample of the annotated pages has been made.
Yeats, William Butler: The Wind Among the Reeds
London: Elkin Mathews, 1943
4th ed.
Inscription: For Sam on his / eightieth birthday, / April 1986. / With love & admiration / Katharine Worth / (August November) 1986
Reading traces on: 18*, 34*, 40, 52, 74. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: date seems to be 1943, but title page says MDCCCCIII. The marginalia in this book are unlikely to be Beckett's.