Description: The Vision of Columbus; A Poem in Nine Books by Joel Barlow, Second American Edition, Hudson and Goodwin, Hartford, 1787, 258pp, leather, 4 x 6.5", 18mo. Original binding. Poor condition/as is. Front board and flyleaf are completely detached from binding. Rear board is adhered to binding via fragile cording. Wear and chipping to boards. Tips are bumped and edges are scuffed. Cracking and chipping to spine but still legible. Speckling to fore edges. Bookplate for Yale University Library, The Samuel Rossiter Betters Yale 1875 Collection of Yale Poetry on front pastedown. Toning and age-staining throughout textblock. No known marginalia. Please see photos and ask any questions prior to purchase. Scarce 2nd American edition of Joel Barlow's Enlightenment poem about the past and promising future of the Americas, told from the perspective of Columbus after an angel transports him from his Spanish prison cell to a mountaintop in North America, and reveals to him the vast achievements that will result from his "discovery" of the Americas. Joel Barlow (March 24, 1754 - December 26, 1812) was an American poet, diplomat, and politician. In politics, he supported the French Revolution and was an ardent Jeffersonian republican. In his time, Barlow was known especially for the epic poem The Columbiad, a later version of the Vision of Columbus (1807), though modern readers rank The Hasty-Pudding (1793) more highly. As American consul at Algiers, he helped draft the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796. FORN-TUB-0042-WW-2405-JC810
Price: 400 USD
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Binding: Leather
Language: English
Special Attributes: Ex-Library
Author: Joel Barlow
Publisher: Hudson and Goodwin
Topic: Poetry
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
