1816 · Philadelphia
by Peale, Charles Wilson
octavo, 23, [1] pp., sewn as issued, untrimmed, ex-library, hand and blind stamps on title page, text somewhat tanned, else a good copy.
Peale here appeals for financial assistance for his museum founded in the 1780s, which, in 1816, like Peale himself, was in financial duress. He presents his museum as a public benefit to city; he cites its benefits as an attraction to the city as well as a place of learning. He looks back with bitterness stating that even "with all this… the institution does not maintain itself." Peale believed that a museum could only exist with a liberal endowment. It had been "madness … to form a school of useful knowledge, to (truncated)
Peale here appeals for financial assistance for his museum founded in the 1780s, which, in 1816, like Peale himself, was in financial duress. He presents his museum as a public benefit to city; he cites its benefits as an attraction to the city as well as a place of learning. He looks back with bitterness stating that even "with all this… the institution does not maintain itself." Peale believed that a museum could only exist with a liberal endowment. It had been "madness … to form a school of useful knowledge, to (truncated)
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