Description: The Columbian: An Epic Poem, By Joel Barlow, Printed by Fry & Kammerer, Philadelphia, 1807, 454 pp, half leather, 11.5 x 9.5”, 4to. In good condition. Spine rebacked nicely with original spine laid over sturdy black buckram. Front and rear gutters have been reinforced with buckram tape. Nicely restored. Moderate wear to extremities with scuffing and dryness to tips and joints. Some light scuffing to the surface of the cloth. Ex-library of Yale University Library The Samuel Rossiter Betts Collection of Yale Poetry dated 1875. Bookplate on front pastedown along with catalog record at top left corner. Magnificent hand-drawn title page in lovely period calligraphy. Lacking original title page. Offsetting from plates throughout, otherwise internally bright. Free of known markings. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. Yale Library collection of Samuel Rossiter Betts (1786-1868) who was an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as a United States representative from New York and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. True 1st edition of Barlow’s vast and devastating poem, The Columbiad. It was on of the first American national epics of historical importance written after the Revolution, even though arguably a failure. The poem illustrates a dialogue of romantic discovery, patriotic founding, and Utopian vision for the future of the fledgling American nation. Scarce. COLU1807BIJW
Price: 250 USD
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Binding: Half Leather
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illuminated, Illustrated
Author: Joel Barlow
Publisher: Fry and Kammmerer
Topic: Poetry
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
