“Volume I. / Containing the Debates in Massachusetts and New York.” pp. viii, 358, *8.
“Volume II. / Containing the Debates in the Commonwealth of Virginia.” pp. viii, 33-487.
“Volume III. / Containing the Debates in the States of North Carolina and Pennsylvania.” pp. (8), 17-322.
The star leaves in Volume I. were originally issued in Volume III., and are sometimes found bound in that volume. They are a fragment of the debates in the New York Convention.
An additional volume was issued in 1830, with the following title:
Journal / and / Debates of the Federal Convention, / Held at Philadelphia, from May 14, to September 17, 1787 / with the / Constitution / of the / United States, / illustrated by the opinions of twenty / successive Congresses, / and a / Digest of Decisions in the Courts of the Union, / involving constitutional principles: / thus shewing / the rise, progress, present condition, and practice / of the Constitution, / In the / National Legislature and Legal Tribunals of the Republic. / With / full indexes on all subjects embraced in the Work. / By Jonathan Elliot. / Volume IV. / (Supplementary to the State Constitutions, in 3 Vols. on adopting the Federal Constitution) / Washington, / Printed and sold by the Editor, / on the Pennsylvania Avenue. / 1830. /
8vo. pp. (8), 272, 404, (4).28
Reviewed by Jared Sparks in the North American Review, xxv. 249.
Elliot (Jonathan). Second Edition.
The / Debates / in the several / State Conventions, / on the adoption of the / Federal Constitution, / as recommended by the / General Convention at Philadelphia, / in / 1787. / Together with / the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther / Martin’s Letter, Yates’ Minutes, Congressional / Opinions, Virgina & Kentucky Resolutions of ’96-’99, / and other illustrations of the Constitution. / In four volumes—Volume I. / Second Edition, / with considerable additions, / collected and revised from contemporary publications, / by Jonathan Elliot. / Published under the Sanction of Congress. Washington: / Printed by and for the Editor, / on the Pennsylvania Avenue. / 1836.