(LAW) Volume of Gentlemans Magazine featuring the United Sta

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(LAW.) Volume of Gentleman's Magazine featuring the United States Constitution. Volume LVII, Part the Second, including title page, 6 monthly issues, annual supplement, and index. 14 plates. [553]-1200, [16] pages. 8vo, modern cloth; minor foxing; edges tinted green; inked stamps on title and 4th page reading "Sold by H.M. Stationery Office." London, July to December 1787

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The Constitution appears in two parts, in the November issue (pages 1009-1011) and December issue (pages 1110-1112), both signed in type by George Washington as president. This was one of the earliest appearances of the full Constitution in Great Britain. The prefatory note explains that this was the subject upon which "the Convention of all the most distinguished men in the States have been deliberating for several months."