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Ex-library hardcover. No dust jacket. Library stickers, labels and stamps on cover and inside. Cover is in good condition. Spine is tight. Pages are clean, free of markings, notes or stains. Ships from Friends bookstore to benefit Beaverton (Oregon) library.

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Ex-library hardcover. No dust jacket. Library stickers, labels and stamps on cover and inside. Cover is in good condition. Spine is tight. Pages are clean, free of markings, notes or stains. Ships from Friends bookstore to benefit Beaverton (Oregon) library.

Size: 9x6x1; [Interesting provenance: From the private library of renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan. ] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Jacket slightly sunned. Contemporary signature of Morgan on front end page, else unmarked. xxix, 236 p., ill., 23 cm. "At last, Charles Willson Peale is revealed, compleat and complex: as the familiar and essential artist and scientist, to be sure, but also as the patriot, parent, publicist, and more. David Ward's astute examination of this unique polymath introduces unexpected aspects of the man and, in so doing, sheds new light on the genius of the American Enlightenment. A masterly portrait, and an interpretive tour de force."-Charles C. Eldredge, author of Tales from the Easel: American Narrative Paintings From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).

BERKELEY, CA: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS. INSCRIBEMD & SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE: FOR JENNIFER: MANY THANKS AGAIN FOR ALL YOUR HELP!, BEST WISHES, DAVID." . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2004.

Published by University of California Press, 2004. 1st USA edition.. Hardback. Nearly Fine/Nearly Fine. Illustrated by Peale, Charles Willson. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. Biography: A portrait painter who produced an unparalleled body of work, including the iconic Artist in His Museum, Peale was also a revolutionary soldier, a radical activist, an impresario of moving pictures, a natural historian, an inventor, and the proprietor of one of the first modern museums. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. Red ink stamp to vertical edge of text block (examination copy, not for resale). Contents clean. Dustwrapper slightly faded to spine, small charity price label to rear panel.

University of California Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x0x9. Publisher's hardback in better than very good condition: firm and square, strong joints. Complete with original dustjacket, not showing any tears or chips. Contents tight and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Thus a tidy book in very presentable condition.