Author Archives: Marco Graziosi

Children’s Books for Christmas 1871

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Sing-Song: a Nursery-rhyme Book. By Christina G. Rossetti. With 120 Illustrations by Arthur Hughes. Routledge. The Princess and the Goblin. By George Macdonald. Strahan. Through the Looking-glass, and what Alice saw there. By the Author of Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland. … Continue reading →

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Mr Lear’s New Nonsense

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

[The idea of “correcting” Edward Lear’s nonsense, which I discussed while reviewing John Crombie’s nice booklet, is as old as Lear’s books. Here is a review from 1871.] Mr. Lear commences his new book of nonsense with an amusing account … Continue reading →

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The Old Man of Corfu Who Fancied a Loo with a View

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

No feature of Edward Lear’s limericks has attracted greater criticism than the repetitive last lines; sooner or later someone was bound to try to ‘improve’ them by providing a more satisfying ending to Lear’s “nonsenses,” as he generally refferred to his … Continue reading →

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Peter Newell, The Solution

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Peter Newell in Harper’s New Magazine, vol. 97, June 1898, p. 159.

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The Ass and the Lapdog

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

A Woolly little terrier pup Gave vent to yelps distressing, Whereat his mistress took him up, And soothed him with caressing:— And yet he was not in the least What one would call a handsome beast. He might have been … Continue reading →

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A Yawning Yallergator

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Peter Newell, from Harper’s Bazaar, I don’t know the date or issue no.

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More Edward Lear Manuscripts from Houghton Library

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Houghton Library has published several more manuscript facsimiles of Edward Lear material, mostly early zoological and botanical drawings: Edward Lear album of drawings, [ca. 1830]. MS Typ 55.27 contains a large number of early animal and plant drawings and a … Continue reading →

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William Michael Rossetti on Edward Lear

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, besides being a universal benefactor as author of The Book of Nonsense (dear to Dante Rossetti), was a very agreeable and efficient landscape designer who had been rather far afield in his quest of the picturesque — Albania, … Continue reading →

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Peter Newell, A Fool’s Cap & a Plate of Ice Cream

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

The following strip is from Peter Newell’s original drawings for a story that was published in Harper’s Bazaar 29.312, 4 April 1896; from the Library of Congress’s Cabinet of American Illustration.

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Edward Lear Manuscripts Go Online

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Houghton Library, Harvard University, has started digitizing some of the many Edward Lear manuscripts in their collections. Two weeks ago, the never-before-published Mrs. C. Beadon Edward Lear scrapbook, 1852-1880. MS Typ 55.23 went online. Beside a number of sketches, this … Continue reading →

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