VIRGINIA] At A General Assembly begun and held at the Capitol in the City of Williamsburg, on Monday the seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, and in the first year of the Commonwealth ... [BOUND WITH] At a General Assembly, begun and held at the capitol, in the city of Williamsburg, on Monday the fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, and in the first year of the Commonwealth. Williamsburg: Alexander Purdie, n.d., but 1776-7. Library cloth, the text uncut showing the original sheet deckle. Slightly variable leaf size, the largest about 13 3/4 x 8 inches (35 x 20 cm); 56 pp., collating [A]1 B-O^2 P1; [2], 34 pp., collating pi1 [A]^2 B-H^2 I1. Bar Association stamp at the head of the each title. Slight old pale dampstain, mostly in the lower margin but entering the lower text in the first part of the first volume; a small natural paper flaw touching a few letters on L1 of the first work, as well as some marginal tears to the final leaf P1. With the signature of James Madison at the upper left of the title-page. The first work bears five neat annotations or emendations, all apparently in Madison's hand; the second portion has two annotations in the same hand on pp. 32-3. MADISON'S OWN COPY OF THE RECORD OF THE 1776 VIRGINIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY, SIGNED BY HIM. Madison was educated at the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, graduating in 1771. His political baptism came in the crucial year of 1776, when he joined the Virginia General Assembly as one of two delegates from Orange County. Though he lost his delegacy in 1777, he was unanimously elected a member of the executive council in 1778. It was during these years that he met and was befriended by Thomas Jefferson and both men worked on the framing of the Virginia constitution. Jefferson and Madison shared a common love of books, a theme that runs through their letters (indeed, during his stay in France, Jefferson send him over two hundred volumes). His experience with the Virginia constitution, together with his considerable scholarship on the nature of governance, ultimately led to his draft of the "Virginia Plan" that served as the foundation for debate on the United States Constitution in 1787, and it is not for nothing that he is often referred to as "The Father of the Constitution." Books from Madison's library are quite rare, and this is especially so with key works of American Revolutionary interest such as this. Evans 15203 and 15694. C The New York City Bar Association
VIRGINIA] At A General Assembly begun and held at the Capitol in the City of Williamsburg, on Monday the seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, and in the first year of the Commonwealth ... [BOUND WITH] At a General Assembly, begun and held at the capitol, in the city of Williamsburg, on Monday the fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, and in the first year of the Commonwealth. Williamsburg: Alexander Purdie, n.d., but 1776-7. Library cloth, the text uncut showing the original sheet deckle. Slightly variable leaf size, the largest about 13 3/4 x 8 inches (35 x 20 cm); 56 pp., collating [A]1 B-O^2 P1; [2], 34 pp., collating pi1 [A]^2 B-H^2 I1. Bar Association stamp at the head of the each title. Slight old pale dampstain, mostly in the lower margin but entering the lower text in the first part of the first volume; a small natural paper flaw touching a few letters on L1 of the first work, as well as some marginal tears to the final leaf P1. With the signature of James Madison at the upper left of the title-page. The first work bears five neat annotations or emendations, all apparently in Madison's hand; the second portion has two annotations in the same hand on pp. 32-3. MADISON'S OWN COPY OF THE RECORD OF THE 1776 VIRGINIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY, SIGNED BY HIM. Madison was educated at the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, graduating in 1771. His political baptism came in the crucial year of 1776, when he joined the Virginia General Assembly as one of two delegates from Orange County. Though he lost his delegacy in 1777, he was unanimously elected a member of the executive council in 1778. It was during these years that he met and was befriended by Thomas Jefferson and both men worked on the framing of the Virginia constitution. Jefferson and Madison shared a common love of books, a theme that runs through their letters (indeed, during his stay in France, Jefferson send him over two hundred volumes). His experience with the Virginia constitution, together with his considerable scholarship on the nature of governance, ultimately led to his draft of the "Virginia Plan" that served as the foundation for debate on the United States Constitution in 1787, and it is not for nothing that he is often referred to as "The Father of the Constitution." Books from Madison's library are quite rare, and this is especially so with key works of American Revolutionary interest such as this. Evans 15203 and 15694. C The New York City Bar Association
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