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Found 29 hits.
Beckett's Library (32)
1
Baudelaire, Charles: Les Fleurs du mal
Paris: Payot, 1928 [1926]
Paul Valéry (introduction)
Notes: 'Collection Prose et Verse'
 on page(s): 7 [zone 1] , 237 [zone 1] , 308 [zone 1]
2
Montaigne, Michel de: Essais
Paris: Gallimard Pléiade, 1958 [1950]
Notes: - presumably booksellers information on fly-leaf: '12/10/71 / 53.10 / 40'; - book ribbon at page 66
 on page(s): 32 [zone 1] , 33 [zone 1]
3
Berkeley, George (Bishop): A New Theory of Vision and Other Select Philosophical Writings
 London: J. M. Dent; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1926 [1910]
A.D. Lindsay (ed.)
Notes: Berkeley's Commonplace Book also contains marginalia and markings in green pencil; reference to Geulincx for these particular notes suggests a dating of 1936 or later, unless taken from Windelband, which would make this earlier.
 on page(s): 148 [zone 2]
4
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Biographia Literaria, Vol. 1
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958 [1907]
J. Shawcross (ed.)
Notes: with his aesthetical essays
 Beckett may be referring to Coleridge's distinction between 'fancy' and 'imagination' on page 09r of the manuscript of Footfalls, MS-UoR-1552-1.
5
Dante Alighieri: The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory and Paradise
London: Bell and Daldy, 1869
Author's Corrected Edition
Henry Francis Cary (translation)
Inscription: '[M.G. Evershed] / £ 2,00 // Bequeathed by / M.A. Orr / to / Barbara Reynolds / Oct. 1949.'
 Beckett may be referring to the 'shades' of The Divine Comedy on page 12r of the manuscript of That Time, MS-UoR-1477-1.
6
Dante Alighieri: La divina Commedia
Alba: Edizione Paoline, 1960
C.T. Dragone (ed.)
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Beckett quotes lines 61-63 from Inferno, Canto I on page 9v of the Stirrings Still notebook MS-UoR-2934
7
Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy
 London: Dent; New York: Dutton, 1967
Everyman's Library n. 308
Henry Cary (translation)
Edmund Gardner (introduction)
Mario Praz (foreword)
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Beckett may be referring to the 'shades' of The Divine Comedy on page 12r of the manuscript of That Time, MS-UoR-1477-1.
8
Shakespeare, William: The Works of William Shakspeare
London / New York: Frederick Warne and Co, n.d.
The "Universal" Edition
Notes: scrap of a diary inserted page 946-47 (Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, scenes 3 and 4): 'Avigdor PLM 11 (photo) / Briquets / foie / whiskey' We owe a debt of gratitude to James Little for offering a correction to the title.
 Beckett seems to allude to King Lear on page 16v of the 'Kilcool' Notebook, MS-TCD-4664. He quotes from the The Tempest on page 02r of the third typescript of Not I, MS-UoR-1227-7-12-4.
9
Shakespeare, William: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
London / New York / Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1957 [1954]
Notes: insert (bread wrapper) stuck on page 596 [opening of Richard III]; book ribbon at page 612
 Beckett seems to allude to King Lear on page 16v of the 'Kilcool' Notebook, MS-TCD-4664. He quotes from the The Tempest on page 02r of the third typescript of Not I, MS-UoR-1227-7-12-4, and alludes to Sonnet 30 on page 02r of the third typescript of Not I, MS-UoR-1227-7-12-4.
10
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: Die Märchen der Brüder Grimm
Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1918
Notes: - no marking next to 'So geht's in der Welt'; - Foxrock Cooldrinagh letterpaper inserted on page 223 ('Dornröschen'), vol.1; - foodwrapper inserted page 49 vol. 2 - 'Der Geist im Glas'
 Beckett alludes to the last line of the story 'How the Cat and the Mouse Set up House' in the manuscript of En attendant Godot (MS-BNF-MY-440, page 47r). He may be alluding to the final lines of 'How the Cat and the Mouse Set up House' on page 19r of the 'Kilcool' Notebook, MS-TCD-4664.