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Item #40747 The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics and Literature for the Year 1793. To Which is Prefixed, The History of Knowledge, Learning, and Taste, in Great Britain, during the Reign of King James the First, Part the First. Andrew Kippis.
The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics and Literature for the Year 1793. To Which is Prefixed, The History of Knowledge, Learning, and Taste, in Great Britain, during the Reign of King James the First, Part the First
The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics and Literature for the Year 1793. To Which is Prefixed, The History of Knowledge, Learning, and Taste, in Great Britain, during the Reign of King James the First, Part the First
The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics and Literature for the Year 1793. To Which is Prefixed, The History of Knowledge, Learning, and Taste, in Great Britain, during the Reign of King James the First, Part the First
The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics and Literature for the Year 1793. To Which is Prefixed, The History of Knowledge, Learning, and Taste, in Great Britain, during the Reign of King James the First, Part the First

The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics and Literature for the Year 1793. To Which is Prefixed, The History of Knowledge, Learning, and Taste, in Great Britain, during the Reign of King James the First, Part the First

London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1794. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (8 3/4 x 5 1/2"). [12], XXXII, 207, [1], 124, 301, [1]pp. Original full marbled calf, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Publisher's vignette on title.

Recording and analyzing the year 1793's major events, developments and trends worldwide, this volume is mostly devoted to the new developments of the French Revolution (which had been underway since July 14, 1789): France at war with Great Britain, King Louis XVI's trial and execution, war on the Rhine, etc..

Includes the first installment of the History of Knowledge, Learning, and Taste, in Great Britain, during the Reign of King James the First; Biographical anecdotes and characters on Henry VII, Henry VIII, Sir Joshua Reynolds, George Edwards, etc.

Also includes articles on the manners of the Japanese; Character of the white residents in the English West Indies; Political character, genius, manners, employments, and diversions of the people in New Hampshire, etc..

Binding rubbed along edges, with closed tears at upper joints. Minor and sporadic foxing to very first and very last pages. Binding in overall good- to good, interior in very good condition. g to vg. Item #40747

Price: $125.00

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