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[DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE] Journals of Congress. Containing the Proceedings from January 1, 1776, to January 1, 1777. Yor...
. York-Town: John Dunlap, 1778. The second issue (i.e. with Dunlap's imprint, but incorporating Aitken's sheets). Modern cloth with red and black lettering labels. 8 x 4 3/4 inches (20 x 12 cm); [2], 520 pp. Title page with Bar Association stamp, discreet accession number on verso. Uncut copy, some toning to the paper as usual. but generally a very sound example, though lacking the index (xxvii pp.) noted by ESTC. This volume bears the name in ink of Henry Remsen Jr., (1762-1843), private secretary to Thomas Jefferson during Jefferson's presidency and a noteworthy New York financier.
This is the volume of the Journals that discusses the events of 1776, including the Declaration of Independence. This book was partly printed by Aitken (pp.1-424), who subsequently lost his press during the fall of Philadelphia before printing was complete; very few copies with his imprint survive. Dunlap, who took over in his stead, incorporated the surviving Aitken sheets, which had been spirited out of the city. The Declaration of Independence appears here on pp. 241-245 i.e. printed by Aitken. Evans 15685; Hildeburn Pennsylvania 3727.
C The New York City Bar Association
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