which has accumulated in the garrets of some of the older families of this city and its vicinity.[1]
On Wednesday, the thirteenth of January, 1802, George F. Hopkins, a bookseller doing business at No. 118 Pearl Street, in the city of New York, issued "Proposals" for publishing, by subscription, a new edition, apparently the sixth, of The Fœderalist. He proposed to revise and correct the work; to add thereto "new passages and notes"; to print it on superfine medium paper, with a neat type; and to bind it, handsomely, in two volumes, octavo, delivering it to subscribers at "Two Dollars a volume."
On Wednesday, the eighth of December, of the same year, the following advertisement, which appeared in The New York Evening Post of that date, announced the publication of the volumes:—
THE FEDERALIST.
THIS Day is Published, in two handsome octavo volumes, printed on paper of a superior quality, and elegantly bound—(Price to subscribers 2 dollars per vol. to non-subscribers 2 dollars 25 cents)
THE
FEDERALIST,
ON THE NEW CONSTITUTION,
BY PUBLIUS.
WRITTEN IN 1788
to which is added,
PACIFICUS, ON THE- ↑ While this sheet was passing through the press, I heard of what appears to be a copy of the edition here referred to, in the collection of General Peter Force, of Washington, D. C., and from that it appears, in the language of a gentleman who examine it, that "it is certainly neither a new edition, nor even a reprint of the first, of 1788, but it is the edition of 1788, with a new title-page printed and bound, so that it bears Tiebout's imprint and the date of 1799, instead of McLean's imprint and the date of 1788." The description of the volumes which bear Tiebout's imprint is identical with that of the volumes which bear McLean's imprint.
