[TECHNOLOGY] [AMERICANA] Remarks on the Rights of Inventors, and the influence of their studies in promoting the enjoyments of life and public prosperity by [no author given] - 1807

Boston: E. Lincoln, 1807. First Edition. Softcover. Good. Octavo, 16pp. A good or better copy, bound into later plain brown paper wrappers. Sizable chip to the first three leaves at the gutter, not affecting any printed text except for part of the first letter at the title page. Some scattered foxing, and age-toning to the first and last leaves, probably from the acidic paper wrappers. This also affects a gift inscription on the title page from one "J. Porter." A very uncommon little pamphlet, which attempts to lay out a plan or regime for dealing with patents and the rights of ownership for innovating inventors. These concerns were certainly significant during the era of the cotton gin, the very beginnings of canal-building, and the steadily growing presence of small factories and mechanized labor in the young United States. Scarce in commerce. Checklist of American Imprints 13188 and 13480; Sabin 69502;.