A BRIEF VIEW OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, ADDRESSED TO THE LAW ACADEMY OF PHILADELPHIA [With 19th century manuscript notes]

Philadelphia: E. G. Dorsey, 1834. First Edition. Small Octavo, xxiv, 106 pages, [2]; G+; Original brown buckram boards, rebacked with brown cloth, and paper label to the front cover; Boards have moderate plus wear to corners, light wear overall, and age-toning and light wear to paper label on front cover; Textblock has moderate age-toning to edges, very light age-toning to pages interiorly, one ink emendation to page 49, and several pages with faint creasing at corners; Ex-library copy, with blindstamp of "Owens College Library" on titlepage and final leaf; Two pages of notes in an unknown 19th-century hand (in ink and graphite) is laid in at front. RWO.

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NOTES

Du Ponceau was a Revolutionary War veteran and the founder of Philadelphia's Law Academy.