Accession number
PML 16504.3
Published
[Newport, R.I. : Printed by Peter Edes, 1790]
Credit line
Purchase; Pierpont Morgan; 1907.
Notes
Includes the declaration of rights and twenty proposed amendments to the Constitution (cf. Evans 22845) as well as the statement of ratification, signed by Daniel Owen, president, and the resolution, dated May 29, 1790, that copies of the ratification be printed and distributed "for the general information of the people."
"This is apparently the second leaf of an unique copy of an issue of 22849. See Alden 1233."--Shipton & Mooney.
Text in two columns; printed area measures 39.8 x 24.0 cm.
This is a detached half of the broadside, the other part of which is the Constitution in the same volume.
"This is apparently the second leaf of an unique copy of an issue of 22849. See Alden 1233."--Shipton & Mooney.
Text in two columns; printed area measures 39.8 x 24.0 cm.
This is a detached half of the broadside, the other part of which is the Constitution in the same volume.
Description
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 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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