| Record ID | bpl_marc/bpl141.mrc:1669891:2901 |
| Source | Boston Public Library |
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110 1 $aUnited States.
240 10 $aConstitution
245 10 $aWe the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America.
246 3 $aUnited States Constitution
260 $a[Philadelphia :$bPrinted by Dunlap & Claypoole,$c1787]
300 $a4 p. ;$c47 cm.
500 $aShipton & Mooney note "no copy located." This printing of the Constitution is described in Prologue, the Journal of the National Archives (Fall, 1970), p. 82. There it is suggested that this printing followed immediately the printing in Dunlap and Claypoole's Pennsylvania Packet on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 1787.
510 4 $aShipton & Mooney,$c45178
510 4 $aEvans,$c20817
510 4 $aESTC,$cW13932
500 $a"The first issue of the Constitution as agreed."--cf. Evans.
500 $aCaption title.Title taken from opening lines of text.
500 $aDated on p. 4: Done in Convention ... the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven. On bottom of p. 4: United States in Congress assembled, Friday, September 28, 1787. (Evans incorrectly cites this as p. 3).
500 $aAscribed to the press of John Dunlap and David C. Claypoole by Evans.
500 $aPrinted in two columns.
500 $aRare Books Collection copy inscribed in what appears to be John Quincy Adams's hand on p. 1: "An original copy of the Constitution of the United States attested by Charles Thomson Secretary to the Confederation Congress. Issued 28 Sept. 1878."$5BRL
500 $aRare Books Collection copy inscribed on p. 4: "Cha Thomson Secy."$5BRL
500 $aRare Books Collection copy donated by Charles Francis Adams.$5BRL
533 $aAlso available on microopaque.$bWorcester, MA :$cAmerican Antiquarian Society,$d1955-1983.$e23 x 15 cm.$f(Early American imprints. First series ; no. 20817).
650 0 $aConstitutions$zUnited States$vEarly works to 1800.
700 1 $aAdams, John,$d1735-1826,$eformer owner.$5BRL
700 1 $aAdams, Charles Francis,$d1807-1886,$eformer owner.$5BRL
856 41 $3Also available online$uhttp://opac.newsbank.com/select/evans/20817$yEvans Digital Edition
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