†‡†No money required till delivery.
Subſcriptions are taken in by J. McLEAN, and Co. No 41, Hanover-ſquare, by the Printer hereof, by the ſeveral Bookſellers of the city, and by all others entruſted with propoſals.
New-York, January 1, 1788.
It will be perceived that the printers had been made acquainted with so little of the plan of The Fœderalist that they proposed to issue the entire work, together with the essays of "Philo-Publius," in a single duodecimo volume of about two hundred and fifty pages; and there is no evidence that any other of their promises was entitled to any greater amount of confidence,—there certainly are no "additions," in this edition, to the text of the numbers which had appeared in the newspapers when it was published; while the "corrections" and "alterations" of that text which it contains are so few in number and so trivial in their character that they are entitled to no particular notice.
On Saturday, the twenty-second of March, 1788, the following advertisement appeared in The Independent Journal; or, The General Advertiser, from which it appears that the first volume was published on that day:—
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED,
Price to Subſcribers, only Three Shillings,
The FEDERALIST,
Volume First.A Deſire to throw full light upon ſo intereſting a ſubject has led, in a great meaſure unavoidably, to a more copious diſcuſſion than was at firſt intended; and the undertaking not being yet completed, it is judged adviſeable to divide the collection into two Volumes.
