Mr. Peale's Museum: Charles Willson Peale and the First Popular Museum of NAtural Science and Art by Sellers, Charles Coleman - 1980

W. W. Norton & Company, 1980-02-17. Hardcover. Good.

Barra Foundation, February 1980. Hardcover . Used Good/Good. Dust Jacket has wear, rubbing, small tears, and is wrapped in mylar Brodart covering, which is removable. Wear to cover, bumped corners, pages tanned but clean and unmarked. We carry new and used books in our storefront. We want you to be satisfied with your purchase. Please contact us if you have questions regarding this item.

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in maroon cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and author's initials in gold on front cover. Book displays light shelfwear. Dust jacket with moderate shelfwear. xiv/370 pages."Charles Willson Peale was not only one of our finest early American painters, but also the founder of the world's first popular museum of natural science and art. Peale's Museum, born of the painter's revolutionary idea that museums should be for everyone―not just for scientists and connoisseurs as had always been the case―was begun in the painter-naturalist's Philadelphia home, and over a seventy-five-year span it grew to include branches in New York City and Baltimore. In its day, Peale's Museum was an institute of learning and science comparable in national prestige to the Smithsonian Institution today. This is the story of that amazing endeavor and of the fascinating man who, virtually singlehandedly, made it happen. We see Peale, democrat to… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Barra Foundation/W.W. Norton, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition stated, with correct number line sequence, no writing, marks, underlining, or bookplates. No remainder marks. Spine is tight and crisp. Boards are flat and true and the corners are square. Dust jacket is not price-clipped, with several enclosed tears and scratches along top and bottom edges. This collectible, " FINE" condition first edition/first printing copy is protected with a polyester archival dust jacket cover. Beautiful collectible copy. GIFT QUALITY