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The Annual register : or, A view of the history, politics, and literature for the year ..

by: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797; Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. MB (BRL); John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) MB (BRL)

Publication date: 1779

Topics: History

Publisher: London : Printed for J. Dodsley

Collection: johnadamsBPL; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library

Language: English

Volume: 1779

Originated with Robert Dodsley, at the suggestion of Edmund Burke, who was for some years editor and principal contributor. Some time after 1791, the copyright and stock were purchased by Otridge and other booksellers. Messrs. Rivington published a rival continuation, which lasted from 1791 to 1812, and again from 1820 to 1824, when the two united to form one publication. --cf. Lowndes. Bibliographer's manual, v. 1

From 1863-1886 subtitle reads: A review of public events at home and abroad, for the year ... New series

Each volume cited separately in ESTC

Index vol. for 1758-1819 also called: Dodsley's annual register

John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library

John Adams Library lacking vols. 1759-1770, 1772-73, 1776-78, 1781-1887

Vols. for 1784-1785 issued in combined form; 1820, in 2 parts

Some vols. in rev. editions

Also available on microfilm

John Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894