[Rarebooks] FS: Joel Barlow's THE VISION OF COLUMBUS, Harford: 1787. Subscribers included George Washington

[Charles Agvent]

BARLOW, Joel. THE VISION OF COLUMBUS; A POEM IN NINE BOOKS. Hartford: 
Hudson & Goodwin, 1787. First Edition. Contemporary sheep. BAL 865. 
Pages [263-264] excised, as noted by BAL. Includes a highly flattering 
dedication to King Louis XVI of France who, along with George 
Washington, leads the list of subscribers. The dedication did not appear 
in the first English edition. Preceding his magnum opus, the COLUMBIAD 
(1807), by twenty years, this poem laid the groundwork for his more 
ambitious later effort which was dedicated to Robert Fulton and which 
was the most costly work published in America to that date. His 
revision, however, was lost on the general population of his young 
country which preferred this the earlier version. Fore-edges a little 
chewed, mild browning of paper. Nice copy.              $950.00	

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