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Box 2

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Contains 12 Results:

Sketches from Memory, 1899

 File — Box: 2, Folder: F25
Scope and Contents

Presentation copy of author's autobiography (London: Chatto & Windus), bound in green cloth, inscribed "F. S. Smallfield from G. A. Storey with very many thanks for his kind assistance in correcting the proofs. Jan. 18, 1899."

Dates: 1899

Cupid Fishing, 1892

 File — Box: 2, Folder: F26
Scope and Contents

Bound in boards by Storey. Includes corrections and translations of poems by Michel Angelo. Accompanied by a undated typewritten preface.

Dates: 1892

Aunt Turner's Legacy Vandyk at Sevanthem, 1895

 File — Box: 2, Folder: F27
Scope and Contents

Fiction, bound in boards and corrected by Storey.

Dates: 1895

Short Chapters on Various Subjects, 1876

 File — Box: 2, Folder: F28
Scope and Contents

Storey reused a number of books for his writings, like this House Inventory Book of Furniture, which contains household inventories with dates of 1832-1856. Storey used this book for several essays. Also inserted into this volume was a receipt for purchase of stock in London North Western Railway in 1875.

Dates: 1876

Essays in French and English on various subjects, 1877-1878

 File — Box: 2, Folder: F29
Scope and Contents

Bound in green leather with tab closure. Contains essays by Storey in both French and English, and recipes for various conditions written in an earlier hand. Newspaper clippings and other slips of paper inserted.

Dates: 1877-1878

Note Book. April 2, 1880, 1880

 File — Box: 2, Folder: F30
Scope and Contents

Brown paper pasted over hardcover. Contains writings about and advice to art critics.

Dates: 1880

Atmosphere and Space in Painting, 1883

 File — Box: 2, Folder: F31
Scope and Contents

Bound in paper wrapper by Storey. Handwritten lectures with pasted-in pictures and excerpts from printed sources.

Dates: 1883

Atmosphere and Space in Painting, 1883

 File — Box: 2, Folder: F32
Scope and Contents

Lectures written, collected and bound in boards by Storey. Includes pencil sketches and diagrams, and a partial draft of his book on perspective. Small note dated 1819 inserted in front.

Dates: 1883

Mysteries of Colour Footprints of the Beautiful, 1883-1885

 File — Box: 2, Folder: F33
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Notes for lectures collected and bound by Storey, with corrections. Includes 1 watercolor chart.

Dates: 1883-1885

The Bedford Lectures, 1886

 File — Box: 2, Folder: F34
Scope and Contents

Bound collection of lectures given by Storey, with some sketches and diagrams.

Dates: 1886

Euclid and Apelles, 1887

 File — Box: 2, Folder: F35
Scope and Contents

Bound by Storey. Author's mock-up with many geometrical diagrams. A sketch signed "yours very truly G. A. Storey," was inserted, along with notice of Storey's Meissonier lecture (see F23) and a Reference Library Application Form dated 1899.

Dates: 1887

A Primer of Perspective, or Perspective Simplified, 1887

 File — Box: 2, Folder: F36
Scope and Contents

Author's mock-up with many diagrams and drawings. Storey writes on the title page, "This book was afterwards much enlarged and improved upon and was published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford under the title The Theory & Practice of Perspective. 1910." (see F47) Includes letter to Storey dated September 28, 1892.

Dates: 1887