[Rarebooks] FS: Important Edition of THE FEDERALIST, the "most famous and influential American political work"

[Charles Agvent]

HAMILTON, Mr. [Alexander]; MADISON, Mr. [James]; JAY, Mr. [John]. THE 
FEDERALIST, ON THE NEW CONSTITUTION, WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1788, BY MR. 
HAMILTON, MR. MADISON, AND MR. JAY WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE 
LETTERS OF PACIFICUS AND HELVIDIUS, ON THE PROCLAMATION OF NEUTRALITY OF 
1793; ALSO, THE ORIGINAL ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION, AND THE CONSTITUTION 
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITH THE AMENDMENTS MADE THERETO. Washington DC: 
Jacob Gideon, 1818. New Edition. Bound in contemporary sheep leather 
with a gilt-lettered morocco spine label; 671 pages. The First Edition 
of this classic in which the authors of each essay were identified by 
name. Comprises 85 political essays, most written by Hamilton, all but 
the last 8 of which were first published in newspapers in New York in an 
effort to convince New York to approve the ratification of the 
Federalist Constitution. Also contains much additional material 
including the preface by Jacob Gideon as well as anonymous Hamilton 
letters written as "Pacificus" and the responses and corrections 
prepared by Madison to the McLean edition of 1810. Complete and entirely 
unsophisticated. Very clean within, the boards and especially the spine 
are rubbed with the spine label hard to read and a few skim marks to the 
boards. Both joints split but the boards are firmly held by the cords. 
Rare in this original, untouched condition.

Howes H-114: "most famous and influential American political work" ; 
Sabin 23981. (#017275)        $5,000.00

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