Item #161506 The First American Art Academy, Reprinted from Lippincott's Magazine
The First American Art Academy, Reprinted from Lippincott's Magazine
The First American Art Academy, Reprinted from Lippincott's Magazine
The First American Art Academy, Reprinted from Lippincott's Magazine
The First American Art Academy, Reprinted from Lippincott's Magazine

The First American Art Academy, Reprinted from Lippincott's Magazine

Philadelphia: Lippincott's Press, 1872. Original Edition, not a reprint. Paperback. Pale blue wraps with black lettering. 39, [3] pp. with bw frontis engraving, tissue-guarded. Good- with back cover missing and front cover loose. Upper outer corner of front cover has been cleanly cut off. Contents nice and clean but for a pencil notation on page 39 and ink stamp on title page from the J.D. Smillie Collection. Potentially missing 1 additional plate and 2 plans (according to WorldCat), but where they were inserted isn't obvious. Item #161506

The story of The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA), situated in Philadelphia, which was erected in 1805, partially burned and rebuilt in 1845-6 and eventually demolished in 1870 (from the information printed in the engraved frontis by J. Sartain and printe by Henry Sartain). A new building was erected beginning in 1871 and is a beautiful Furness-Hewitt red sandstone building which opened as part of the Philadelphia Exposition of 1876.

OCLC: 79923266

Price: $45.00