been published in Paris, in the year 1792, with the following titles:—
"Le Fédéraliste, | ou | Collection de quelques Écrits en faveur de | la Constitution proposée aux États-Unis | de l' Amérique, par la Convention convoquée | en 1787; | Publiés dans les États-Unis de l'Amérique par | MM. Hamilton, Madisson et Gay, | Citoyens de l'État de New-York. | Tome Premier. | A Paris, | Chez Buisson, Libraire, rue Hautefeuille, | n°. 20. | 1792."
"Le Fédéraliste, | ou | Collection de quelques Écrits en faveur de | la Constitution proposée aux États-Unis | de l' Amérique, par la Convention convoquée | en 1787; | Publiés dans les États-Unis de l'Amérique par | MM. Hamilton, Madisson et Gay, | Citoyens de l'État de New-York. | Tome Second. | A Paris, | Chez Buisson, Libraire, rue Hautefeuille, | n°. 20. | 1792."
These are two small octavo volumes of four hundred and twenty-two and five hundred and thirteen pages, respectively, which are thus arranged: The first volume, Bastard-title; verso to the bastard-title, blank; title-page, as above; verso to the title-page, blank; and "Avertissement,"—all unpaged; verso to the "Avertissement," xxij. of "Constitution Des Etats-Unis"; iij. to xxj., introductory matter by the editor;[1] xxij. to xlix., "Constitution Des Etats-Unis de l'Amérique"; l. to lij., "Table des Chapitres Contenus dans ce premier Volume"; 1 to 366, "Le Fédéraliste." The second volume, Bastard-title; verso thereto, blank; title-page, as above;
- ↑ As I have not found a perfect copy of this edition I am unable to describe the character of the whole of this Introduction. Rich refers to it in his Bibliotheca Americana Nova, (Vol. I. pages 380, 381,) but gives no description of it; and in the only copy of Le Fédéraliste in which any portion of it is to be found, of which I can hear,—that in the library of Harvard University,—there are only five pages of it (xvij. to xxj.). These embrace "reasons why America has adopted and will retain the Fœderal form of government, and why the translator has not corrected the Essays."
