Articles of Confederation
within the Continental Journal and Weekly Advertiser ]. Boston: John Gill, 22 January 1778. 4 pp., bifolium (390 x 250 mm). Text in three columns. Text of the Articles printed on the entire front page and continuing on the final page. Disbound. Condition : cellotape repairs. early printing of the articles of confederation . Following its adoption on November 15, 1777, the Articles of Confederation was first printed in Lancaster (where Congress was meeting with Philadelphia under British occupation). Issued there as a pamphlet (as well as within John Dunlap’s Pennsylvania Packet and within a pocket almanack also from Dunlap’s Lancaster press), state printings of the Articles were issued shortly thereafter. Priority of these contemporary pamphlet, newspaper, and broadside issues has not been established. This 22 January 1778 issue of the Continental Journal (number LXXXVII) published by John Gill was likely issued simultaneously to a 16-page pamphlet edition also from his press.
Articles of Confederation
within the Continental Journal and Weekly Advertiser ]. Boston: John Gill, 22 January 1778. 4 pp., bifolium (390 x 250 mm). Text in three columns. Text of the Articles printed on the entire front page and continuing on the final page. Disbound. Condition : cellotape repairs. early printing of the articles of confederation . Following its adoption on November 15, 1777, the Articles of Confederation was first printed in Lancaster (where Congress was meeting with Philadelphia under British occupation). Issued there as a pamphlet (as well as within John Dunlap’s Pennsylvania Packet and within a pocket almanack also from Dunlap’s Lancaster press), state printings of the Articles were issued shortly thereafter. Priority of these contemporary pamphlet, newspaper, and broadside issues has not been established. This 22 January 1778 issue of the Continental Journal (number LXXXVII) published by John Gill was likely issued simultaneously to a 16-page pamphlet edition also from his press.
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