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 Fœderalist 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:—
"The | Federalist, | on | the new constitution, | written in the year 1788, | by | Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Madison, and Mr. Jay: | with | an appendix, | containing | the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius | on the | proclamation of neutrality of 1793; | also, | the original articles of confederation, and the | constitution of the United States, | with the amendments made thereto. | A new edition. | The numbers written by Mr. Madi-
