(Massachusetts) A constitution or frame of government, agreed upon by the delegates of the people of the state of Massachusetts-Bay, in convention, begun and held at Cambridge on the first of September, 1779, and continued by adjournments to the second of March, 1780. (Revised and corrected). Boston: Benjamin Edes & Sons, 1780 8vo (209 x 128 mm). Lacking half-title, browning and foxing. Early twentieth-century half brown morocco and patterned plum cloth covered boards, spine gilt-lettered; extremities rubbed, cloth faded. The revised issue of the first Massachusetts State Constitution, which served as an important point of reference for subsequent state constitutions, as well as the United States Constitution. John Adams played a key role in the drafting of this document. PROVENANCEJohn Carter Brown (bookplate, various library stamps) REFERENCEESTC W35663; Evans 16845; Revolutionary Hundred 64 (first issue); Sabin 45691 (first issue)
(Massachusetts) A constitution or frame of government, agreed upon by the delegates of the people of the state of Massachusetts-Bay, in convention, begun and held at Cambridge on the first of September, 1779, and continued by adjournments to the second of March, 1780. (Revised and corrected). Boston: Benjamin Edes & Sons, 1780 8vo (209 x 128 mm). Lacking half-title, browning and foxing. Early twentieth-century half brown morocco and patterned plum cloth covered boards, spine gilt-lettered; extremities rubbed, cloth faded. The revised issue of the first Massachusetts State Constitution, which served as an important point of reference for subsequent state constitutions, as well as the United States Constitution. John Adams played a key role in the drafting of this document. PROVENANCEJohn Carter Brown (bookplate, various library stamps) REFERENCEESTC W35663; Evans 16845; Revolutionary Hundred 64 (first issue); Sabin 45691 (first issue)
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