The Farewell Address of Gen George Washington, First President of the United States, to the People on his retiring from Public Life

To Which is added, The Constitution of the United States with all the Amendments

Printed by John Prestiss, Keene, NH, 1812.

5 3/8" tall, 96 pages, no frontis, behind the title page is a presentation page filled in by hand in 1812 presented to Mr. William Answorth on his admittance to the Washington Benevolent Society. 

The Washington Benevolent Societies (the "WBS") were grass-roots political clubs set up from 1808 to 1816 by the Federalist Party in the U.S. to electioneer for votes. The first branch of the organization was set up in New York City, in opposition to the older Tammany Society, members of the group were often given printed with copies of "Washington's Farewell Address".