HAMILTON, Alexander; MADISON, James; & JAY, John — THE FEDERALIST
New York. Limited Editions Club. Two octavo volumes (6-1/4" x 9-5/8") bound in half blue levant morocco leather, gold-stamped, and buff paper sides printed in blue. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. Designed and decorated by Bruce Rogers. Undertaken by some of the greatest political and legal minds of their day, Hamilton, Madison, and Jay anonymously took to the newspapers in 1787 to defend the newly crafted United States Constitution and persuade New Yorkers to ratify it. Their Federalist Papers were the major push to setting the Constitution in stone, shaping American political history as we understand it today. Copy #469 of 1500 SIGNED by the designer on the colophon page.. Bookplates on front pastedowns. Near Fine, lackng the slipcase
