(Articles of Confederation)Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union between the States of New-Hampshire, Massachusettes-Bay, Rhode-Island and Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia. [New London: Timothy Green, 1784]
Folio (295 x 172 mm). Three disbound leaves, six numbered pages; some browning and scattered spotting, two small marginal tissue reinforcements. Housed in custom red clamshell case and folding chemise.
"The stile of this confederacy shall be 'The United States of America': the final draft printing of the Articles of Confederation." — (Article I)
The Articles of Confederation, a unicameral constitution providing for a loose federation of the states, was drafted and approved by the delegates meeting in York-Town (now Lancaster), on 15 November 1777. It required unanimous ratification by the 13 states, therefore it only went into effect in March 1781 after the last state, Maryland, ratified. Its inception marked the end of the Continental Congress; it would remain in effect, in many ways, for seven years, until superseded by the Constitution of 1788.
The present lot constitutes "the final draft printing of the Articles, executed for the use of the Continental Congress. This version, with 'sundry small amendments in the diction, without altering the sense' was agreed to on Nov 15, 1777. The first edition subsequent to approval was printed at Lancaster by Francis Bailey shortly after" (Evans 15619).
Another copy of this 6 pp. printing was tentatively attributed to the Lancaster Press of John Dunlap by Evans (Evans 15620; Sabin 2142), and sold at Christie's New York on 22 June 2012, for $25,000. The present printing was extracted from the Laws of Connecticut (Evans 18409).
One of the great American documents.
REFERENCES:Evans 18409 (source); Evans 15620; Sabin 2142
(Articles of Confederation)Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union between the States of New-Hampshire, Massachusettes-Bay, Rhode-Island and Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia. [New London: Timothy Green, 1784]
Folio (295 x 172 mm). Three disbound leaves, six numbered pages; some browning and scattered spotting, two small marginal tissue reinforcements. Housed in custom red clamshell case and folding chemise.
"The stile of this confederacy shall be 'The United States of America': the final draft printing of the Articles of Confederation." — (Article I)
The Articles of Confederation, a unicameral constitution providing for a loose federation of the states, was drafted and approved by the delegates meeting in York-Town (now Lancaster), on 15 November 1777. It required unanimous ratification by the 13 states, therefore it only went into effect in March 1781 after the last state, Maryland, ratified. Its inception marked the end of the Continental Congress; it would remain in effect, in many ways, for seven years, until superseded by the Constitution of 1788.
The present lot constitutes "the final draft printing of the Articles, executed for the use of the Continental Congress. This version, with 'sundry small amendments in the diction, without altering the sense' was agreed to on Nov 15, 1777. The first edition subsequent to approval was printed at Lancaster by Francis Bailey shortly after" (Evans 15619).
Another copy of this 6 pp. printing was tentatively attributed to the Lancaster Press of John Dunlap by Evans (Evans 15620; Sabin 2142), and sold at Christie's New York on 22 June 2012, for $25,000. The present printing was extracted from the Laws of Connecticut (Evans 18409).
One of the great American documents.
REFERENCES:Evans 18409 (source); Evans 15620; Sabin 2142
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