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Hardcover, large quarto volume bound in tan cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher’s glossy pictorial dust-jacket. 272 pages. Endmatter includes Notes, Selected Bibliography, Catalogue and Index. Foreword by Charles Coleman Sellers. Illustrated with 189 images, including 98 plates in full color. Stated first edition, no additional printings listed. A biography of one of America’s finest painters and a true renaissance man, including essays by three distinguished scholars, over 180 illustrations of Peale’s paintings and objects from his museum. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh and unmarked copy, pristine and like new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. A large heavy book, postage for Priority and International order will be charged at actual cost.