(NEW YORK) Manual for the Use of the Convention to Revise th

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(NEW YORK.) Manual for the Use of the Convention to Revise the Constitution of the State of New York. Folding plate tipped in from another volume. 371 pages. 8vo, original red calf, moderate wear, with Mackenzie's name stamped in gilt on front board; moderate foxing, 1849 calendar laid down on front free endpaper; inked notes and underlining in some sections. New York, 1846

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This was the personal copy of William Lyon Mackenzie (1795-1861), who was assigned to cover the convention by Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune. Mackenzie was an important Canadian political figure who had previously served as the first mayor of Toronto and was a leader of the Upper Canada Rebellion; he served as a journalist during a ten-year exile in the United States. He was said to be impressed by the progressive constitution which emerged from this convention. This volume is heavily annotated in parts, presumably in Mackenzie's hand. The section on the Texas constitution is heavily underlined, and the list of delegates is marked up. The folding plate, "Diagram of the State Convention Chamber, 1846," is not normally found in this volume; it was published the same year in "Debates and Proceedings in the New-York State Convention." Mackenzie's assigned seat appears in the upper right, apart from the other reporters.