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 which has accumulated in the garrets of some of the older families of this city and its vicinity.

On Wednesday, the thirteenth of January, 1802,, a bookseller doing business at No. 118 Pearl Street, in the city of New York, issued "Proposals" for publishing, by subscription, a new edition, apparently the sixth, of The Fœderalist. He proposed to revise and correct the work; to add thereto "new passages and notes"; to print it on superfine medium paper, with a neat type; and to bind it, handsomely, in two volumes, octavo, delivering it to subscribers at "Two Dollars a volume."

On Wednesday, the eighth of December, of the same year, the following advertisement, which appeared in The New York Evening Post of that date, announced the publication of the volumes:—

HIS Day is Published, in two handsome octavo volumes, printed on paper of a superior quality, and elegantly bound—(Price to subscribers 2 dollars per vol. to non-subscribers 2 dollars 25 cents)

to which is added,