was considered desirable, and Messrs. J. & A. McLean, No. 41 Hanover Square, New York, were induced to collect and put them to press, in a convenient form, and to offer them for sale at a moderate price.
Accordingly, on the first day of January, 1788, these gentlemen issued the following Prospectus:[1]—
In the Preſs, and ſpeedily will be publiſhed,
The Federalist;
A collection of ESSAYS, written in favor of the
NEW CONSTITUTION,
By a CITIZEN of NEW-YORK:Corrected by the author, with additions and alterations.
CONDITIONS.
This work will be printed on a fine paper and good type, in one handſome volume duodecimo.
The number of pages the volume will contain, cannot rightly be aſcertained, as the author has not yet done publishing, but the printers engage to deliver them to ſubſcribers at the very reaſonable rate of Five Shillings for 200 pages, Six Shillings if 250, and all above gratis.— —The numbers already published will make more than 200 pages, and the author does not ſeem to be nigh a cloſe.
To render this work more complete, will be added, without any additional expence,
Philo-Publius, and the Articles of the Convention,
As agreed upon at Philadelphia, Sept. 17. 1787.*⁎* A few copies will be printed on ſuperfine royal writing paper, price Ten Shillings.
- ↑ This Prospectus is copied from The Daily Advertiser, Vol. IV. No. 893, New York, Thursday, January 3, 1788.
