Constitution of the United States of America. The Annual Register, or the View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1787. London. J. Dodsley, 1789. First Edition
The first English edition of the important Annual Register for the year 1787 including one of the earliest imprints of the Constitution of the United States of America it is possible to purchase.
The Annual Register is widely recognized as an important source for the events relating to the creation of the United States of America. Many leading historians of the American Revolutionary period, including David Ramsay, James Murray, and William Gordon “borrowed heavily from the Annual Register” (Gephart 1016, 2565). With an early British printing of the “Articles of the New Constitution of the United States of America, entered into by a Convention of all the states held at New York, 1787” (289-98). First published by Robinson in 1787.
Baumann Books, a fine and established Americana dealer, has a copy on the market at $1,800.00.
Original quarter leather, worn with paper loss, front board all but detached. Text very sound and generally crisp. Very reasonably priced.