The Annual Register or a View of History, Politics and Literature, for the year 1761 - 1795 (15 volume set)

Edmund Burke; Robert Dodsley; James Dodsley

London: J. Dodsley, 1779

15 volumes set. Bound in contemporary tree-calf.  8vo. Good bindings and covers. Mixed edition. Volumes 4, 11-12, 20, 22-23, 26, 30-32 & 34-38.  Comprising the years 1761, 1768, 1769, 1777, 1779, 1780, 1783, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 & 1795.  Printed 1779-1796.  The annual "Originated with Robert Dodsley, at the suggestion of Edmund Burke, who was for some years editor and principal contributor."  Lowndes. Bibliographer's manual, v. 1. 

Notable articles in this set include: Design of the campaign in Hesse; Bankruptcy and the suspension of the French East-India Company; Rupture between the two great empires of the East and North; Retrospective view of American affairs in the year 1776; Lord Cornwallis and Gen. Knyphausen advance in the enemy’s country; Attack on the Rajah’s camp at Pattetah; War declared at Vienna; Retropective views of the affairs of France towards the close of the year 1789, state of Paris, sudden and frequent revolutions in the government; War with the Tippo Sultan; Debates on the Birmingham Riots; Capture of the Hill Forts; Prosecution for Sedition in Scotland; Plan for the attack in Holland; Debate on the landing of Hessian Troops; Debates on the slave trade; Conspiracy against the King and the Constitution; Renewal in Hostilities in La Vendee; Insurrection in St. Lucia; Fire in Montego Bay, Jamaica. 

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