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1st USA 2004. 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. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

bound in crisp black cloth with bright gilt tiles to spine, this dated 2004 hardcover First Edition is VG in VG dustjacket(unclipped). XX1V/236pp with Preface, 8 Chapters, 49 Plates, Notes and Index. Red rubber stamp to fore-edge, "Examination Copy not for Resale", ( Review copy paperwork enclosed) otherwise as new!

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).

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INSCRIBEMD & SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE: FOR JENNIFER: MANY THANKS AGAIN FOR ALL YOUR HELP! , BEST WISHES, DAVID."

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Hardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) produced an unparalleled body of work, including the iconic "The Artist in His Museum". He was a revolutionary soldier, a radical activist, an impresario of moving pictures, a natural historia

Size: 6x0x9; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!