Documentary History of the Constitution of the United States of America, 1786-1870, 5 volumes by United States Department of State - 1965

New York: Johnson Reprint, 1965. Hardcover. VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to boards and block. Pages are otherwise clean.). Five volumes set bound in blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Derived from records, manuscripts, and rolls deposited in the Bureau of Rolls and Library of the Department of State. Originally published 1894 [i.e. 1901]-1905 by the Department of State and reprinted from a copy in the collections of The New York Public Library./ Vols. 1-3 were published originally in parts, as Appendixes I-V of "Bulletin of the Bureau of Rolls and Library, " no. 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9, 1893-97 (no. 9 issued 1900). They were reprinted, according to a concurrent resolution passed by the Senate January 24, 1901, and by the House of Representatives February 9, 1901, and issued in a bureau edition and also in the Congressional series, as House document 529, 56th Congress, 2d session./ Vol. 3 has an appendix (not included in the original edition) "Additional notes by Madison for the introduction to his notes of debates in the Federal Convention" (p. 796a-796o); also, a "Special index" (p. 797-904)./ Vols. 4-5 were published as "Bulletin of the Bureau of Rolls and Library, " no. 11, pt. 1-2.