It forms a fine thick octavo volume of six hundred and seventy-one pages, which are thus arranged: Title, as above; verso to the title, copyright certificate to Jacob Gideon, Junior,—both unpaged; 3 to 7, "Prefatory Remarks," dated "City of Washington, May, 1818"; 8, blank; 9 to 550, "The Federalist"; 551 to 593, "Appendix. The Letters of Pacificus. By Alexander Hamilton"; 594 to 638, "The Letters of Helvidius. By James Madison"; 639 to 650, "The original articles of confederation"; 651 to 671, "Constitution of the United States."
It is printed in signatures of eight pages each, on paper of good quality, with a fine full-faced pica type, solid,—the "Prefatory Remarks" with a fine clean bourgeois, leaded,—and is entirely without illustrations.
This description is the result of a careful examination of the copy which is in the private library of Samuel L. M. Barlow, Esq., in the city of New York.
In the year 1826 an edition of The Fœderalist, probably the eleventh, was published at Hallowell, of which the following is a copy of the title-page:—
"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. | A new edition. | The numbers written by Mr. Madison corrected by himself. | Hallowell, (Me.): | Printed and published by Glazier & Co. | 1826."
It forms a large octavo volume, of five hundred and eighty-two pages, which are thus arranged: Title-page, as above; verso of the title-page, with certificate of copyright granted to Jacob Gideon, Junior, in 1818,—
