Author: Sellers, Charles Coleman
Title: Charles Willson Peale: Later Life (Vol. 2 of a Two Volume Set)
Description: Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1947. First. Hardcover. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and insignia. xii + 468 pp. with bw frontis and 45 bw illustrations. Missing dust jacket. Published as Volume 23, Part 2 of the series, Memoirs of The American Philosophical Society. Discusses the later part of Peale's life, from age 49 onwards. The inscription is to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (deceased) resident, Ira Daffin, one of a group of men who made the New Holland Farm Machinery company successful and owned land and horses in the county. The inscription is from Rudolf Wunderlich, New York, former president of Kennedy Galleries. VG, clean, tight text block. Covers have general shelf wear and rubbing; dent in middle of front cover upper edge. Inscription inside front cover related to former owner.

Keywords: American Artists; Charles Willson Peale ; Peale, Charles Willson ; American Art ; Colonial Days


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