[Americana] (Hamilton, Alexander, and James Madison, and John Jay): The Federalist, on the New Constitution...

Second Edition in English of the Federalist Papers, in Contemporary Binding

(Hamilton, Alexander, and James Madison, and John Jay)
The Federalist, on the New Constitution...
New-York: Printed and Sold by George F. Hopkins, 1802. In two volumes. Second edition in English. 8vo. viii, 317, (1); v, (iii), 351 pp. (some misnumbering in first volume). Contemporary three-quarter brown mottled calf over marbled paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt, boards and extremities rubbed, light wear to spine ends; all edges trimmed; foxing and offsetting to text; scattered small creasing in corners of first volume. Howes H-114; Sabin 23981; Shaw & Shoemaker 2218; Reese, The Federal Hundred 19

Second edition in English of The Federalist in an unsophisticated contemporary binding, the last edition issued in Alexander Hamilton's lifetime. This edition is revised and corrected with numerous additions, and contains a printing of the United States Constitution and the first 11 amendments, as well as Hamilton's series of essays penned under the name Pacificus. Significantly, it the first edition in English to identify Hamilton, Madison, and Jay as the authors, and what essays they had written. “Clearly written by Hamilton partisans, it gives more authorial credit to Hamilton than modern scholarship cedes him” (Reese).

A handsome set.

Private Collection, Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania