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novelnovelMr. Meeson's WillMr. Meeson's Willhttps://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/haggard/editions/images/000/000/96/original/mrMeesonsLondonSpencerBlackettCover.jpeg?1480716102Mr. Meeson&#39;s Will is a legal drama concerning an authoress stranded on a desert island with a wealthy publisher who tattoos his will onto her back. MMW was first published in its entirely in the Summer Number of The I...<span style="font-style:italic;">Mr. Meeson's Will</span> is a legal drama concerning an authoress stranded on a desert island with a wealthy publisher who tattoos his will onto her back. <span style="font-style:italic;">MMW</span> was first published in its entirely in the Summer Number of <span style="font-style:italic;">The Illustrated London News</span>, issued June 1888 and accompanied <a href="http://www.visualhaggard.org/illustrators/40">Amedée Forrestier</a> and <a href="http://www.visualhaggard.org/illustrators/41">G. Montbard's</a> illustrations. Spencer Blackett, London, published an edition in October 1888 featuring sixteen full-page illustrations by Forestier and Montbard. This edition also includes 26 chapter-heading embellishments, 24 decorative first letters, and 18 end-of-chapter decorations. In 1888 Pollard & Moss, New York, published an edition with twenty-four full page illustrations by Philip G. Cusachs. <h4>Further Reading</h4> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">Pocock, Tom. <span style="font-style:italic;">Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire</span>. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993. 76. Print.</p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">Whatmore, D.E.. <span style="font-style:italic;">H Rider Haggard: A Bibliography</span>. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing Co., 1987. 14-16. Print.</p>
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Mr. Meeson's Will

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Mr. Meeson's Will is a legal drama concerning an authoress stranded on a desert island with a wealthy publisher who tattoos his will onto her back. MMW was first published in its entirely in the Summer Number of The Illustrated London News, issued June 1888 and accompanied Amedée Forrestier and G. Montbard's illustrations. Spencer Blackett, London, published an edition in October 1888 featuring sixteen full-page illustrations by Forestier and Montbard. This edition also includes 26 chapter-heading embellishments, 24 decorative first letters, and 18 end-of-chapter decorations. In 1888 Pollard & Moss, New York, published an edition with twenty-four full page illustrations by Philip G. Cusachs.

Further Reading


Pocock, Tom. Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993. 76. Print.


Whatmore, D.E.. H Rider Haggard: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing Co., 1987. 14-16. Print.

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