Accession number
PML 16504.4
Published
[Newport, R.I. : Printed by Peter Edes, 1790]
Credit line
Purchase; Pierpont Morgan; 1907.
Notes
Printed in two columns.
Followed by resolutions of the Constitutional Convention, urging ratification of the Constitution and election of a president of the United States.
Library's copy is half of sheet, the other half of which (now detached, PML 16504.3) contains: Ratification of the Constitution of the United States by the Convention of the State of Rhode-Island and Providence-Plantations.
Imprint supplied by Alden, who suggests that this is the item described in Evans entry 22976; Edes was paid by the General Assembly for printing 300 copies.
First line: "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a".
Followed by resolutions of the Constitutional Convention, urging ratification of the Constitution and election of a president of the United States.
Library's copy is half of sheet, the other half of which (now detached, PML 16504.3) contains: Ratification of the Constitution of the United States by the Convention of the State of Rhode-Island and Providence-Plantations.
Imprint supplied by Alden, who suggests that this is the item described in Evans entry 22976; Edes was paid by the General Assembly for printing 300 copies.
First line: "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a".
Description
[2] p. ; 44 x 28 cm.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate: Charles C. Jones, Jr.,
Binding
Disbound. In flat case with related PML and MA items measuring 54 cm. Previously bound in 3/4 red morocco lettered: Draft Constitution.
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