Marine Paintings and Drawings in the Peabody Museum
by Brewington, M.V. And Dorothy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/FN/VG
- Seller
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Hampden, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Salem, Mass: Peabody Museum, 1968. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/FN/VG. xvii, 530 pp. + colophon. Blue cloth. No. 15 of 750 numbered copies. Type design & composition by Anthoensen Press. With over 1500 illustrations, sixty in full color. Most major marine artists are included and nearly every type of sailing craft and steamship. With a 1966 typed letter, signed from Ernest Dodge, the director of the Peabody Museum, describing the progress of the book: "We are aiming for a September 1967 publication...have received proof on forty-four of the colored plates..." Also with a 23 page catalogue of oil and watercolor paintings in the Peabody Museum laid in. Two small rust marks from the staples of the catalogue by the front hinge else VG/FN in VG dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Lippincott Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5440
- Title
- Marine Paintings and Drawings in the Peabody Museum
- Author
- Brewington, M.V. And Dorothy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/FN
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Peabody Museum
- Place of Publication
- Salem, Mass
- Date Published
- 1968
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nautical; Art;
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- Colophon
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- First Edition
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- VG
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- Cloth
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