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Early Vermont Imprint
Vermont. The constitution of Vermont, as established by convention in the year 1778, and revised by convention in June 1786. Windsor [Vt.]: Hough and Spooner, 1786. Evans 20096, McCorison 121
The third of five 18th-century editions of the Vermont Constitution. This
copy bears the ownership inscription of an early AAS member William Plumer
(1759-1850) dated 1787, the same year he was admitted to the New Hampshire
bar. Plumer held various state offices before serving as U.S. senator and
then governor of New Hampshire; later he was chosen as first president of
the New Hampshire Historical Society.
Purchased from David Lesser;
Harriet Merrifield Forbes Fund
-David Whitesell, Curator of Books
"One day I am visited by a collector of ordination sermons; the next, by
a collector of 4th of July orations; then comes a collector of geography;
another wants religious newspapers; another wants every book printed in
New York before 1700. I accommodate myself to all; for I want every thing
and collect every thing, and I have more zeal than the whole of them: and
in this way I am kept very busy."
~Christopher Columbus Baldwin
3rd Librarian of AAS
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