[Rarebooks] FS: Alexander Hamilton THE FEDERALIST, 1818, First Edition with Authorship of Essays Identified

[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/Baltimore: Jacob Gideon/Cushing & Jewett, 1818. First Edition. Bound 
in contemporary marbled sheep leather with a gilt-lettered black morocco 
spine label and gilt decorations on the spine; 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. Utica 
bookseller ticket of Wm. Williams on the front pastedown. Complete and 
entirely unsophisticated. Front endpaper mostly lacking with the front 
blank and the rear blank and endpaper with large tears with no loss. 
Rare in this original, untouched condition.

HOWES H-114: "most famous and influential American political work"; 
SABIN 23981. (#020193)        $5,000

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