NMLP P-035251 — History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (prepared for publication by Paul Allen, from Nicholas Biddle's narrative) · Bradford and Inskeep (Philadelphia); printed by John Maxwell · 1814

Nicholas Biddle wrote the narrative from Lewis's and Clark's field journals but gave up the work in 1811 after his election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, handing the project to Paul Allen, whose name alone appears on the title page as having "prepared [it] for the press." Two settings both dated 1814 exist: the first printing runs 36 lines to the page, while a same-year reissue was reset in larger, clearer type at 32 lines to the page -- this reset issue is a second printing, not the first, though Coues later judged it the best-printed of the Biddle-Allen texts

New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035251 for "History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark" by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (prepared for publication by Paul Allen, from Nicholas Biddle's narrative) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035251, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).