Maine | Constitution of the State of Maine, with twenty-nine amendments

Maine

Constitution of the State of Maine, formed in Convention at Portland, October Twenty-Ninth, and Adopted by the People in Town Meetings on the Sixth Day of December A.D. 1819, … Together with Amendments Subsequently made Thereto. Augusta: Burleigh & Flint, Printers to the State, 1893

8vo (230 x 144 mm). Title-page with woodcut vignette of the seal of Maine; primarily marginal foxing to title and preliminary leaves. Modern half black morocco and marbled paper-covered boards, spine lettered in green.

The present printing offers twenty-nine amendments to Maine's original constitution, which was passed in 1820 upon the state's formal secession from Massachusetts. The 1820 constitution remained current until 1893.