[Brooklyn: privately printed for Paul Leicester Ford], 1888. 8vo, pp. 54; largely unopened; unprinted paper wrappers, light chipping to covers, near fine. The letters were originally published in a Delaware newspaper in 1788 and were "occasioned by an alarming hesitation of some States to ratify the Constitution proposed by the..... More
New York: Charles L. Woodward, n.d., [ca. 1888]. Bifolium prospectus, 4to, red ornamental border on first page, old fold, shallow chip, lower spine with some residue suggesting the item had been previously tipped in; very good. The published title would be Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States, limited..... More
[Brooklyn: Paul Leicester Ford, 1888]. 8vo, pp. 23, [1]; unopened in original unprinted paper wrappers; wrappers chipped, very good. Gerry was one of three men of the Constitutional Convention who refused to sign the Constitution because it did not include a Bill of Rights at the time, and after the..... More
[Brooklyn: Paul Leicester Ford], 1888]. 8vo, pp. 14, [2]; original unprinted paper wrappers; shallow chipping to covers, wrappers loosening; very good. "Brutus is the signature (of Thomas Treadwell...) to a series of sixteen newspaper essays in the New York Journal, which were extensively copied throughout the country. This is an..... More
