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Official account of the estate, art, and archives of Edward Gorey, benefiting animal welfare causes. Gorey championed.

Official account of the estate, art, and archives of Edward Gorey, benefiting the animal welfare causes Mr.

08/14/2026

4/30. “... he seized the tongs ... ” Original art and lettering from THE OBJECT-LESSON (1958). Pen and ink on paper, 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches (cropped area).

08/08/2026

“Bustopher Jones, The Cat About Town.” Happy International Cat Day! As an organization dedicated to animal welfare (and established by the famously inveterate cat lover, Mr. Gorey), the Edward Gorey Charitable Trust was pleased to learn recently about the annual August 8 celebration of cats worldwide, hosted by the global cat welfare charity, International Cat Care. Please join the celebration and visit the new cat-themed page of our friends at the Gorey Store, whose sales of books, gifts, and collectibles benefit our mission: https://edwardgorey.org/collections/cats?srsltid=AfmBOooYyRFeFU6eIddHV_TsckmLGqxQUtCdK-vVTAcnX5mosL0g4IYR
First image: original art by Edward Gorey for OLD POSSUM’S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS, by T. S. Eliot (1982 edition). Pen and ink on paper, 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches.

08/04/2026

Stuffed rabbit studies. A recent find in the archives - drawings by Edward Gorey, almost certainly of one of his own stuffed animal creation in various poses (see Slide 3 - a rabbit Mr. Gorey made from reused cotton and stuffed with rice and gave in the 1990s to his friend and collaborator, Carol Verburg). Pen and ink and watercolor on paper, approximately 10 x 7 inches (sheets).

07/14/2026

3/30. “... therefore, having directed the servants to fill the baths, ... ” Original art and lettering from THE OBJECT-LESSON (1958). Pen and ink on paper, 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches (cropped area).

07/08/2026

“No sooner were they bound in marriage / Than both discovered their mistake / And as they drove off in the carriage / Each pondered on what steps to take.” Unpublished cover for A DREADFUL DOMESTICITY, a book never completed or published, with pages from a prototype for the same. Two such covers (the earlier bearing the title, A DISMAL DOMESTICITY) were recently rediscovered in the Trust archives with the manuscript of a 15-stanza poem, dated 7 May - 21 June 1956 (i.e., begun May 7, completed June 21) and a small mock-up, illustrated with a handful of pencil sketches, of the book - evidently intended to be published under Gorey’s own imprint, The Fantod Press. The Fantod Press would not actually publish anything until 1962, when Gorey, finally released THE BEASTLY BABY, which he had long shopped around in vain to horrified prospective established publishers.
“A week went by. A Tradesman calling / Peered in and gave a sickened gulp / For on the carpet they were sprawling, / A single horrid heap of pulp” (concluding stanza).
Cover: pen and ink on paper, 5 3/4 x 3 inches (cropped area). Prototype: pen and ink on paper, with typed paste-ons, stapled, 7 x 4 inches (folded).

06/28/2026

“The people in this story: / A boy named Jack. / He’s small, but brave. / He lives in Cornwall, England. / A Giant who likes / To rant and rave. / He lives on an island. / Each day when / The sun went down, / The Giant came / To every town and farm in Cornwall, / HE CAME TO STEAL!” Original art and production mechanical by Edward Gorey for JACK THE GIANT-KILLER (first published by Scholastic Magazine in 1973). Pen and ink on paper with printed text paste-ups, printer’s marks, and color overlay. Cropped pages each 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches.

06/21/2026

“At times it would tear out whole chapters from books. Or put roomfuls of pictures askew on their hooks.” Happy Father’s Day! With original art and lettering from THE DOUBTFUL GUEST (first published in 1957). Pen and ink on paper (image and text digitally combined).

06/12/2026

2/30. “... but his lordship’s artificial limb could not be found.” Original art and lettering from THE OBJECT-LESSON (1958). Pen and ink on paper, 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches (cropped area).

06/09/2026

“One dull afternoon Piermont went up to the attic. There he put a new nib in his pen, took a sheet of his best paper, raised the lid of his inkwell, and began to write.” Original art and lettering from THE INTERESTING LIST, an ambitious work on which Edward Gorey embarked in the early 1970s but never completed. Pen and ink on paper, 5 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches (cropped areas), dated “5.i.72-5.i.72” and “6.i.72-6.i.72,” respectively, on the versos.

06/02/2026

“Fi!” Original art by Edward Gorey from the unfinished and unpublished LES INTERJECTIONS ESSENTIELLES (par Edouard Ensanglanté). Dated, “21.ix.77-21.ix.77 (i.e., begun and completed on September 21, 1977), on the verso. 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (cropped area).

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