G. A. Storey — Sketches from Memory

London, Chatto & Windus, 1899. Cloth. A collection of vignette autobiographical tales, profusely illustrated by the author. G. A. Storey (1834-191) was an English painter and illustrator who drew heavily from the Pre-Raphaelites and later Charles Robert Leslie. His reputation was mostly for genre and portrait paintings, as well as illustrations for romances. Storey exhibited at the Royal Academy and studied there from 1854. This is an autobiographical collection of sketches including chapters on his travels, various encounters with artists and other important people and his studies. In the publisher's original cloth binding with a pictorial cover.Illustrated with ninety-three drawings by the author himself. In a full cloth binding. Externally generally smart, a trifle bumped to the head and tail of the spine and general wear to extremities+. Internally firmly bound, pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: G. A. Storey. Very Good Indeed .