"United States Constitution" from the Printing Office of Edes & Gill in Boston - Pre-ratification, with letter from George Washington

The print is from the Printing Office of Edes & Gill, which was located in the Clough House (c 1712), part of the Old North Church Historic Site in Boston. You can purchase the Constitution, described below, or the Constitution and the Declaration, which is also printed at Edes & Gill, at a savings of $5 for the pair.

This video was shot at the Printing Office of Edes & Gill the day they began printing the Boston edition of the United States Constitution. In the video, Gary Gregory, founder and print master, describes the five year effort to print this for the first time since 1787.

— Lee Wright  |  Founder  |  The History List  |  History Camp

This the broadside with the Constitution, as printed in Boston before ratification and it includes a letter from Washington urging ratification. (The letter is on the second side, at the bottom.) 

The print is from the Printing Office of Edes & Gill, which was located in the Clough House (c 1712), part of the Old North Church Historic Site in Boston.

We are able to make these available through special arrangement. Each one is printed by hand on a press in exactly the same manner as was done when these were printed originally.

The original broadside was printed on two sides. We have arranged to have a print with both sides side-by-side. The side-by-side (single-sided) is 23" x 17 1/2".

If you are interested in this in a handmade frame, as we've done with the Declaration, contact me. Prices start around $500 and production time is four to eight weeks.

We also have the Boston edition of the "Declaration of Independence," also printed by Edes & Gill. And a version of the "Declaration of Independence" from John Dunlap / NPS in Philadelphia.

— Lee Wright  |  Founder  |  The History List  |  History Camp

 About Benjamin Edes & John Gill

On April 7, 1755, Edes and Gill became the proprietors of The Boston Gazette and Country Journal. According to the author of Infamous Scribblers (2006), the Boston Gazette, arguably the most influential newspaper the country has ever known, got us into the Revolutionary War, sped up the course of the war and may have even determined the outcome of the war.