An incredible rarity with unique association to one of the people who played an active role in creating the laws passed here.
The Bill of Rights appeared in two 1789 book printings—this Senate Journal and the Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States—both printed soon after the close of the first session of the First Federal Congress on September 29. Although priority has not been definitively established, the Senate printing likely came first. Thomas Greenleaf began soliciting subscribers for the Senate Journal in July 1789 and advertised it through his newspaper, the New-York Journal, and Weekly Register through October 8, when he informed subscribers that they could pick up their copies on October 11.
