THE NEW ANNUAL REGISTER,; or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature for the year 1788, to which is prefixed, The History of the state of Knowledge, Learning and Taste, in Great Britain during the Reigns of King Edward the Sixth and Queen Mary. From the year 1547 to 1558

[GODWIN, William]

Published by G. G. J. and J Robinson, London, 1789

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8vo, pp. (i), (vi), xxiv, (1)-114, (1)-144, 1-296. Bound in contemporary calf-backed boards , a very good clean copy. "The Annual Register . provided a summary of the year's historical events, reprinted the main public documents . reviewed chief books . and offered a convenient reference book to be added to year by year . In 1780, the dissenters started Robinson's New Annual Register. In 1784 Andrew Kippis . suggested to Robinson that [Godwin] should be engaged as an assistant . and employed to compile the historical section. It was Godwin's first and - as events were to turn out - the only regular employment he ever enjoyed"[St. Clair p. 31]. Godwin continued the work until 1790. The first portion is the history, presumably by Godwin. This includes the printing of the declaration of Convention in Virginia, July 1, 1788 which ratified the US Constitution. It also prints the Declaration of Rights of the Convention in North Carolina previous to the ratification of the Constitution as well as the humble petition to the King of the agents for American loyalists. There is also much material concerning Sweden and Russia. Reviews of literature, poetry, etc.

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• Title: THE NEW ANNUAL REGISTER,; or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature for the year 1788, to which is prefixed, The History of the state of Knowledge, Learning and Taste, in Great Britain during the Reigns of King Edward the Sixth and Queen Mary. From the year 1547 to 1558
• Publisher: G. G. J. and J Robinson, London
• Publication Date: 1789
• Edition: First Edition.
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