RARE AND IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF EARLY AND CONTEMPORARY WORKS VITAL TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION AND ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
(CONSTITUTION) (MADISON, James). Secret Journals of the Acts and Proceedings of Congress. Boston, 1821. Four volumes.
1821 second edition of the Secret Journals of the Acts and Proceedings of Congress, featuring Benjamin Franklin's "sketch of the Articles of Confederation" as submitted to the Convention on July 21, 1775, and the official publication of both John Dickinson's July 12, 1776 draft of the Articles of Confederation and the subsequent August 20, 1776 draft of the Articles, preceded only by the extraordinarily rare 1820 edition issued by the same Boston publisher. A splendid four-volume set, rarely found complete. $8200.
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