above; and verso to title-page, blank,—both unpaged; 3 to 6, "Prefatory Remarks"; 7 to 404, "The Federalist"; 405 to 431, "Appendix. The Letters of Pacificus"; 432 to 459, "The Letters of Helvidius"; 460 to 466, "Original Articles of Confederation"; 467 to 479, "Constitution of the United States"; 480 to 484, "Index."
It is printed in signatures of sixteen pages each, with small-pica type, solid,—the "Prefatory Remarks" in long primer, leaded, the "Appendix" in long primer, solid, and the "Index" in brevier, solid,—on paper of fair quality; and it is entirely without illustrations.
This description is the result of an examination by Samuel G. Drake, Esq., of Boston, of a copy which is in his library.
An edition of The Fœderalist, "which should combine the typographical convenience of the edition of 1818, with the additional matter of that of 1831, seeming to be called for by the general voice," in September, 1845, Messrs. J. & G. S. Gideon, of Washington, appear to have responded by publishing an edition, probably the seventeenth in book-form, possessing the peculiar features which had been thus demanded by the public, and with the additional one of "some improvements in the Index" which had previously appeared.
In none of the libraries which have been examined while searching for materials for this work does this edition find a place; and, beyond the indefinite remarks of the "Advertisement" which have been quoted above, no account of it whatever has been obtained.
In 1847, a new edition, probably the eighteenth, of The Fœderalist was published at Philadelphia, with the following title:—
"The | Federalist, | on | the new constitution, | written in | the year 1788, | by | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. | With an appendix, |
