It is printed in signatures of eight pages each, on paper of a coarse texture, with long-primer type which appears to have been considerably worn; and it is illustrated with portraits of the authors,—Hamilton opposite the title, Madison opposite Number XIV. (page 70), and Jáy opposite Number LIV. (page 294),—from the same plates, by Leney, which were used by Williams and Whiting in the edition of 1810, with no other alteration than the erasure of the words "Printed by A. G. Reynolds," which had appeared on the original plates.
From the similarity of the copyright certificate, and from the use of the same engraved plates to illustrate the volume, as well as from a comparison of the notes and text generally, it is evident that this is a reproduction of the New York edition of 1810, which had been published by Williams and Whiting, with the acknowledged errors of that edition, in the designation of the several authors.
This description is the result of a careful examination of a copy which is in the library of Daniel P. Smith, Esq., of Bedford, Long Island.
In the following year, (1818,) the same publisher issued another edition with this title:—
"The | Federalist, | on the new Constitution; | written in 1788, | by Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Jay, and Mr. Madison. | A new edition, | with the names and portraits of the several writers. | Philadelphia: | Published by Benjamin Warner, No. 147, Market Street, | and sold at his stores, Richmond, Virginia, | and Charleston, South Carolina. | 1818."
This edition forms a single octavo volume of five hundred and four pages, which are thus disposed: title, as above; verso of title-page, certificate of copyright, the same which had been granted to Williams and Whiting for the first volume of the edition of
