Description
The large paper edition of The Life of Robert Fulton by Cadwallader Colden, published the same year as the true first edition.
Tall octavo, vi, 371pp. Bound in contemporary cloth with title in gilt on black morocco label affixed to spine. This is the large paper edition, measuring 25.4cm as opposed to standard 23.6cm. Solid text block, sunning to covers and spine, foxed endpapers, faint toning throughout text. With a frontispiece portrait of Fulton. Fold-out table at rear describing steam vessels built at Fulton’s direction. (Sabin 14277)