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OSBORN 19TH CENTURY BOUND MANUSCRIPTS (FOLIO)[Full list of the Osborn shelves material, which includes Lear watercolors.]Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

BURNEY-LEAR DRAWINGSThe Burney-Lear Drawings consists of over 1,000 watercolors, sketches, and drawings by Edward Francis Burney, other members of the Burney family, members of the Hoare family, Edward Lear, and others. Most of the drawings are unsigned, and some of the attributions are still uncertain. The majority of the material appears to date from the [...]

Edward Lear. The author of one of the most original books of comic verse ever written, Edward Lear, though he was a great traveller, had not much to do with Bohemia. An artist he was in more than one sense and in more than one branch of art; but none of his artistries led him [...]

ALISON LURIE: On Edward Gorey (1925-2000)Edward Gorey, who died on April 15, was associated with The New York Review of Books from the beginning. His fantastic and memorable cover illustrations were a feature of every anniversary issue; and in 1975 he contributed an ongoing serial, Les Mystères de Constantinople, whose heroine was thought by some [...]

The Art of Dr. SeussTheodor “Dr. Seuss” Geisel’s first children’s book, “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” was published in 1937; in the year 2000, nine years after his death, the ageless appeal of his whimsical world is selling seats on Broadway (”Seussical”) and at the movies (”The Grinch”).Yet most of [...]