(Madison, James, et al.) | The challenge to the new nation

(Madison, James, et al.)

Address and recommendations to the states, by the United States in Congress assembled. [Boston]: Philadelphia: printed 1783. Boston: re-printed, by order of the Hon. House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1783

4to (190 x 113 mm). Minor browning and offsetting. Disbound, stab-stitched, largely uncut. Clamshell case, spine gilt-lettered. 

The first Boston printing by a committee consisting of Madison, Hamilton and Oliver Ellsworth

Issued the same year as the Philadelphia first printing, the present report addressed raising national revenue among other critical issues facing the new nation. Appended are a number of relevant state papers, including a letter from Benjamin Franklin and the treaty of Vergennes; Adams' contract with the Netherlands regarding loans; and material relating to the Newburgh Address, with the petition of the officers, extracts from Washington's reply, and related resolutions of Congress. 

Scarce

REFERENCE

ESTC W15153; Evans 18225; Howes A76; Federal Hundred 1 (Philadelphia edition)