First Public Printing

A momentous issue of Dunlap & Claypoole’s Pennsylvania Packet, regarded as the first public printing as well as the first newspaper printing of the U.S. Constitution. 

This is preceded only by two draft printings, for the Committee of Detail and the Committee of Style, intended solely for the use of delegates, the “official” edition of the final text, which was printed for submission to Congress and private distribution (Evans 20818), and a contemporaneous printing known only in two copies, all printed by Dunlap and Claypoole, the official printers to the Convention.  

★ Pennsylvania Packet, September 19, 1787, first-day printing. #27904