probably of European make, the prefatory remarks being in pica Italics.
On Wednesday, the twenty-eighth of May, 1788, the following advertisement in The Independent Journal; or The General Advertiser, announced the publication of the second volume of the work:—
This Day is publiſhed,
The FEDERALIST,
volume second.
THIS ineſtimable Work is offered to Non-Subſcribers at the low rate of Eight Shillings the two Volumes, which contain upwards of ſix hundred Pages.
The ſeveral matters which are contained in theſe Papers, are immediately interwoven with the very exiſtence of this new Empire, and ought to be well underſtood by every Citizen of America. The Editor entertains no doubt that they will be thought by the judicious reader, the cheapeſt as well as most valuable publication ever offered to the American Public.
*⁎* Subſcribers are requeſted to ſend immediately for their Copies to the Printing-Office, No. 41, Hanover-Square, four Doors from the Corner of the Old-Slip.
☞ Thoſe Gentlemen who were intruſted with Subſcription-Liſts are requeſted to return them to the Printer immediately.
New-York, May 28, 1788.
The volume which was thus announced bears the following title:—
"The | Federalist: | a collection | of | essays, | written in favour of the | new constitution, | as agreed upon
