[Rarebooks] FS: Joel Barlow's THE VISION OF COLUMBUS, Hartford: 1787, First Edition, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:    Was $950   Now  $500:

BARLOW, Joel. THE VISION OF COLUMBUS; A POEM IN NINE BOOKS. Hartford: 
Hudson & Goodwin, 1787. First Edition. Octavo (5-3/4" x 7-3/4") bound in 
contemporary sheep with a gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. BAL 
865. Pages [263-264], which were blank, 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 
of the covers a little chewed, not affecting the pages which have mild 
browning. Nice, Near Fine copy. (#003224)        $500.00

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