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37, [1], lviii pp. 22x14 cm (8¾x5½") modern full green morocco, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.

First edition of this famous tract, better known as the "Reynold's Pamphlet". Hamilton was charged with "a connection with one James Reynolds for purposes of improper pecuniary speculation." "My real crime," confesses the late secretary, not without a blush, "is an amorous connection with his (Reynolds) wife for a considerable time, with his privity and connivance."  The pamphlet was written to answer the charges made by Callender in his History of the United States. Had it not been written by himself, it would most likely have been pronounced the greatest libel on the greatest man that New York has ever produced. Hamilton’s friends tried to suppress it, but his enemies helped him to circulate it by reprinting it in 1800. Sabin 29969; Howes H-120; Evans 32222. With the John Henry Nash designed bookplate of John Francis Neylan.