The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the New ...

It forms a fine thick octavo volume of six hundred and seventy-one pages, which are thus arranged: Title, as above; verso to the title, copyright certificate to JACOB GIDEON, Junior,—both unpaged; 3 to 7, "Prefatory Remarks," dated "City of Washington, May, 1818"; 8, blank; 9 to 550, "The Federalist"; 551 to 593, "Appendix. The Letters of Pacificus. By ALEXANDER HAMILTON"; 594 to 638, "The Letters of Helvidius. By JAMES MADISON"; 639 to 650, "The original articles of confederation"; 651 to 671, "Constitution of the United States."

It is printed in signatures of eight pages each, on paper of good quality, with a fine full-faced pica type, solid, the "Prefatory Remarks" with a fine clean bourgeois, leaded, and is entirely without illustrations.

This description is the result of a careful examination of the copy which is in the private library of SAMUEL L. M. BARLOW, Esq., in the city of New York.

In the year 1826 an edition of The Federalist, probably the eleventh, was published at Hallowell, of which the following is a copy of the title-page:

It forms a large octavo volume, of five hundred and eighty-two pages, which are thus arranged: Title-page, as above; verso of the title-page, with certificate of copyright granted to JACOB GIDEON, Junior, in 1818,

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.*

* 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.

In 1831 it appears that another edition, probably the thirteenth in book-form, was published in Hallowell; but, like that which was last referred to, a copy has not been found.

The catalogue of the library of the American Institute, in New York, mentions it as one of the editions in that collection; but it appears that it was taken from the library, many years since, by a member who has since deceased, and was never recovered.

In 1831, an edition of The Federalist, probably the fourteenth, was published at Washington, D. C., with the following title:

It forms a duodecimo volume of four hundred and twenty-six pages, which are thus arranged: Titlepage, as above; verso to the title-page, notice of copyright entered in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia by THOMPSON & HOMANS, both unpaged; iii. to vii., "Contents"; viii., blank; 3 to 5, "Prefatory Remarks"; 6 to 380, "The Federalist"; 381 to 404, " Appendix "; 405 to 420, " Index."

It is printed in signatures of twelve pages, with brevier type, solid, -the "Prefatory Remarks" being in minion, solid, on paper of poor quality and rather dingy in appearance; and it is not illustrated.

VOL. I.

With the exception of three paragraphs of the "Prefatory Remarks," which have been omitted in this edition, of the transfer of the name of its author from the head of each number to its foot, where it is inserted in Italics, enclosed in brackets, after the general signature of "PUBLIUS," and of the addition, at the close of the volume, of a copious alphabetical index to the work, this edition is a careful reprint of that which had been issued at Washington, in 1818; indeed, so closely does it follow that edition, that it was considered a violation of the copyright of Mr. GIDEON, by Messrs. GLAZIER & Co., of Hallowell, to whom that right had been assigned, and by whom it had been exercised in the issue of at least one edition, as already noticed.

The peculiarity of this edition of The Federalist is the elaborate index of sixteen pages, which was prepared for it by PHILIP R. FENDALL, a member of the Washington bar, an appendage which renders it the most useful of the fourteen collective editions which, it is probable, had then appeared.

This description is the result of a very careful examination of the copy which is in the library of the Congress of the United States, at Washington, by A. R. SPOFFORD, Esq., its assistant librarian.

In the year 1837, GLAZIER, MASTERS, and SMITH, Of Hallowell, Maine, published another edition of the work, probably the fifteenth, with the following title:

SON corrected by himself. | Hallowell: | GLAZIER, Mas-
TERS & SMITH. | 1837."

It forms a fine octavo volume of five hundred pages, which are thus arranged: Title, as above; verso, blank, both unpaged; 3 to 6, "Prefatory Remarks"; 7 to 413, "The Federalist"; 414 to 442, "Appendix. The letters of Pacificus. By ALEXANDER HAMILTON"; 443 to 472, "The letters of Helvidius. By JAMES MADISON"; 473 to 480, "The original articles of confederation"; 481 to 494, "Constitution of the United States"; 495 to 500, "Index."

It is printed in signatures of twelve pages each, with small-pica type, solid,— the "Prefatory Remarks" being in long primer, leaded, the " Appendix" in long primer, solid, and the "Index" in brevier, leaded; and it is entirely without illustrations.

Like all the Hallowell editions, it is a careful reprint of the edition published by Mr. GIDEON in 1818.

This description is the result of an examination of the copy which is in the Astor Library, in the city of New York.

In 1842, another edition, probably the sixteenth, was issued by the same press, at Hallowell, which has been already so often mentioned in this work. The following is the title of the edition referred to:

It forms an octavo volume of four hundred and eightyfour pages, which are thus arranged: Title-page, as

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