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Peter Newell, Book with Cut-Out Eyes

Posted on November 2, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

No Edward Lear, for a change. I suspect this manuscript chapbook was a prototype for Peter Newell’s 1909 Jungle Jangle, a mild satire of Theodore Roosevelt. This “untitled book with cut-out eyes” is available on the Yale University Library website, … Continue reading →

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Humpty Dumpty by Aliquis

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Marco Graziosi

Last year I posted Edward Lear’s version of Humpty Dumpty, and was reminded of Aliquis’s Pictorial Humpty Dumpty (London: Tilt & Bogue, 1843), another “panorama” by the author of The Flight of the Old Woman Who Was Tossed Up in … Continue reading →

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