Meet the Books | “The Gorgeous and the Grotesque: The Illustrations of Edward Gorey”
Edward Gorey, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, or, After the Outing, New York: Peter Weed Books, 1962, Hirsch Library, gift of Will Michels.
Edward Gorey, The Unstrung Harp, or, Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel, New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce; Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1953, Hirsch Library.
Edward Gorey, The Gilded Bat, Simon & Schuster, 1966, Hirsch Library.
March 7, 2024
Find out more about the exhibition The Gorgeous and the Grotesque: The Illustrations of Edward Gorey, on view at the Hirsch Library through March 9. Rebekah Boulton, librarian and exhibition coordinator, discusses the macabre book illustrations from the career of renowned author and illustrator Edward Gorey.
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