Vision: A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetic Appreciation of Life Volume 1, Number 1

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Brownish tan printed and sewn wraps. (2), 20, (2) pp., several tipped-in plates as well as wood block reproductions. This is the Spring 1911 Number. Includes a lengthy illustrated article by John Collier (The Celtic Sunrise and Its Light For America). Next article is entitled "Within The Darkened Hall of A Yiddish Theatre. The Wonderous Dusk of The City. I Wander Through The East Side (By W.S.). This is followed by an article by Edwin Leeds (The Expression of Life: An Essay on Art, Illuminated with Drawings of Jerome Myers). Then we are presented "Three Verses of the City, by Charles J. Storey, finally "New Thoughts Taking Form. A Note on American Civic Architecture" by W.S. Colophon states "This number of Vision printed from type set by Mathew Smith of the Stone House Press at Johnsonville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and the presswork done under his supervision during February Nineteen Hundred and Eleven, the initials and decorations being designed and engraved on wood by Walter Storey. Walter Rendell Storey was born in 1881 in Upper Darby, PA and died in 1953 in Englewood, NJ. Charles Storey was his twin brother, an artist and art-teacher. Mathew Smith was a printer. They were all about 30 years old when the created "Vision." Walter Rendell Storey later became a writer on Interior Decoration and Antiques, his work appearing in the New Yotrk Times Sunday Magazine from about 1930 until 1945, as well as in other magazines. He also published a number of books on these topics. Worldcat locates this short-lived periodical in seven (7) libraries. It seems very likely that this issue, No. 4, was the final issue. The frontis illustration was drawn and hand-illumined by Helene Wood (who may be the same as Helene Wood Smith, who taught at the Carmel Monterey Peninsula Art Colony with William Merritt Chase in 1910, having come there from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY). She is believed to have been murdered near Carmel in August of 1914, as described in the Winnipeg Tribune from August 27, 1914 on page 10. Extremely rare. Laid-in at the rear of this issue are 6 printed woodblocks which (it appears) were made for another issue. Some of them are simp[ly hand-colored in highlight and signed with a "WS" monogram, suggesting they are the work of the author. Fair, smapstaining to most pages cover is not affected, some foxing. Not the best copy, but quite usable. N° de ref. del artículo 165700

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