both unpaged; 3 to 6, "Prefatory Remarks"; 7 to 493, "The Federalist"; 494 to 525, "Appendix. The Letters of Pacificus, by Alexander Hamilton"; 526 to 558, "The Letters of Helvidius, by James Madison"; 559 to 567, "The original Articles of Confederation"; 568 to 582, "Constitution of the United States."
It is printed in signatures of sixteen pages each, on paper of a fair quality, with a small size of small-pica type, leaded, and is not illustrated. The running-titles at the heads of the pages are in small capital letters; the titles of the respective numbers are in capitals,—"No. LXXX."; the contents of the numbers are in Italics; and the "Prefatory Remarks" are in small pica, solid.
This description is the result of a careful examination of a copy in the library of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, compared with one in the library of the American Institute, in the city of New York.
In 1827, it is said, another edition of The Fœderalist was published at Hallowell, but every effort to find a copy of it has proved fruitless.
The catalogue of the library of the State of New York, at Albany, alludes to the existence, in that collection, of a copy of this edition; but Mr. H. A. Homes, the assistant librarian in charge of that department, has not been able to find it during the ten years which he has spent in the institution, nor has a copy been found elsewhere, notwithstanding a diligent search has been instituted for that purpose in various directions.[1]
- ↑ Mr. Homes has suggested the possibility that the date which appears in the catalogue may be a typographical error, and that it may allude to a copy of the edition of 1837, which is in the library.
This suggestion is supported by doubts concerning the publication of an edition at Hallowell in 1827, which have been communicated to the Editor by Masters, Smith, & Co., the successors in business of Glazier & Co., who, if such an edition appeared, were the publishers of the work. As the volume has been referred to in different editions of the catalogue, notwithstanding these doubts, I have not felt at liberty to disregard it.
