Journal, Acts and Proceedings, of the Convention, Assembled at Philadelphia, Monday, May 14, and Dissolved Monday, September 17, 1787, which Founded the Constitution of the United States.

First Edition of Journal, Acts and Proceedings, of the Convention, Assembled at Philadelphia, Monday, May 14, and Dissolved Monday, September 17, 1787, which Founded the Constitution of the United States

Boston: Thomas B. Wait, 1819.

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Increasingly scarce first edition of the first and earliest obtainable account of the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Octavo, original tan calf with gilt titles and ruling to the spine on a red morocco spine label, ruled in blind. One of one thousand copies printed. Signed by E. Lincoln on the title page, presumably Enoch Lincoln, 1788-1829, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and Maine, 6th Governor of Maine, and by his son William Lincoln on the fore-edge of page 100. In good condition with rubbing to the spine and extremities, small loss to the crown of the spine, splitting to the hinges, closed tear to the rear flyleaf, toning to the front and rear endpapers, correction to text in a contemporary hand on page 10 (crossing out “B” in General B. Bloomfield and adding “Joseph” in margin), and warping to the boards.

Published by an order of Congress in an edition of 1,000 copies for personal use and dispersal by members of Congress and edited by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, this volume was the first to break the veil of secrecy surrounding the debates and construction of the Constitutional Convention. The work drew from papers and manuscripts deposited in the State Department that recorded the official proceedings and votes during the convention, by President George Washington, as well as notes from James Madison's personal journals composed during the convention and papers from other members of the convention, many given by General Joseph Bloomfield who was New Jersey Framer David Brearly's executor.