DEBATES AND OTHER PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION OF VIRGINIA, Convened at Richmond, on Monday the Second Day of June, 1788, for the Purpose of Deliberating on the Constitution Recommended by the Grand Federal Convention. To which is Prefixed the Federal Constitution by Robertson, David - 1805

Richmond: printed at the Enquirer-Press for Ritchie & Worsley and Augustine Davis, 1805. Hard Cover. Poor binding. Octavo. viii, 477 pp. Second edition. Untrimmed, in publisher's paper over boards with printed paper title label on the spine. A pretty rough binding with boards detached but held in place by early tape to the exterior of the binding as well as some tape hinges to a few preliminary pages; the title label is only present as a fragment and much of the spine is perished; binding is soiled and stained; contents are variously foxed with early dampstaining to the last hundred or so pages; occasional marginal bracketing by a previous owner; a serviceable copy of this, the second edition of what was originally issued in three volumes in a 1788-89. Sabin 100029; Shaw & Shoemaker 9665.