CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.

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Complete set of the Journals of Congress. First editions, a complete set of the Journals of Congress, the principal printed record of the Revolutionary and Confederation eras, and a foundational document of the American Republic. Covering the full span of the Continental Congress from 1774 to its final session in 1788, the Journals chart the nation's course from resistance to independence and constitutional government. They include the Declaration of Independence, the debates of the 1787 Constitutional Convention, and the United States Constitution.The journals of the First and Second Continental Congresses had appeared separately in 1774 and 1775. In September 1776, following the Declaration of Independence, Congress authorized Robert Aitken to reissue those journals, "and to continue to print the same", as an official series. After the fall of Philadelphia and the loss of Aitken's press, printing passed to John Dunlap and David Claypoole. Following the establishment of the new federal government, the series ended and was replaced by the Journal of the House of Representatives and Journal of the Senate.A complete set is remarkably difficult to assemble, especially so entirely in first printings (without any of the later New York or Folwell printings), and is exceptional in original boards. Provenance: Michael Zinman, among the greatest contemporary collectors of Americana (bookplates to front endpapers and boxes); the second volume has the ownership signature of Abraham Whip

• Printing: first

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