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BETSY LEWIN PAPERS

Collection Number
Collection Dates
Collection Volume
DG0612
1980-1981
.40 cu.ft. (1 box)
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Provenance

Material was donated by Betsy Lewin in 1981 and 1995.

Restrictions

Noncirculating; available for research.

Copyright

The collection is protected by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U. S. Code). Reproductions can be made only if they are to be used for "private study, scholarship, or research." It is the user's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and to obtain all necessary permissions prior to the reproduction, publication, or other use of any portion of these materials, other than that noted above.

Biographical Sketch

Betsy Lewin was born May 12, 1937 in Clearfield, Pennsylvania to John and Winifred Reilly. She studied art at the Pratt Institute of Art and received a Bachelor's of Fine Art degree in 1959. She now lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband Ted Lewin, who is also an author and illustrator. Ms. Lewin has illustrated for her own stories as well as for other authors.

Source:

Scope and Content

Cat Count (1981) was originally a poem written and illustrated by Ms. Lewin for Humpty Dumpty Magazine. An editor at Dodd, Mead & Company suggested that she expand it into a picture book. The collection contains a copy of the original poem found in Humpty Dumpty Magazine, an original dummy with ink sketched illustrations, final original illustrations, master galley, master dust jacket, and a final dummy with paste-ups.



Series and Subseries

A. Book (1981)


Box Inventory


Box/Folder




A.   Book


     Cat Count written and illustrated by Betsy Lewin (New York:  Dodd, Mead
     & Company, 1981).

     1/1       Original "Cat Count" poem as it appeared in Humpty Dumpty
               Magazine, 2 pp.

     1/2       Ink sketched dummy, 10 pp.

     1/3       Photocopied dummy, edited with typesetter's marks, 12 pp.

     1/4       Final illustrations, including front jacket, 9 pp.

     1/5       Proof of typescript only, labeled as "first master proof", dated 25
               September 1980, 2 pp.

     1/6       Master for book jacket, typesetter's marks, 1 item.

     1/7       Final dummy with paste-ups, typesetter's marks, 15 pp.
Processed: September 19, 1997
Revised: June 2001

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