Item #32323 THE NEW ANNUAL REGISTER,; or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature for the year 1790, to which is prefixed, a continuation of the History of Knowledge, learning and Taste, in Great Britain, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. William GODWIN.

THE NEW ANNUAL REGISTER,; or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature for the year 1790, to which is prefixed, a continuation of the History of Knowledge, learning and Taste, in Great Britain, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

London: G. G. J. and J Robinson, 1791. First Edition. 8vo, pp. (ii), (vi), (i-xxxviii, (1)-147, (1)-184, 1-287. Bound in modern cloth backed boards, a very good untrimmed clean copy. Item #32323

"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. Includes articles on Ireland, the slave trade,

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