Author: DEBRETT.
Title: The Royal Kalendar; or complete and correct Annual Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the Year 1791; Including a complete and correct List of the 17th Parliament of Great Britain, summoned to meet for their first Session in November, 1790. Upon a new and more extensive Plan than any hitherto offered to the Public: containing, England. I. Complete and correct Lists of both Houses of Parliament; all the State, Law, Revenue, and Public Offices, at the Court, in the City of London, and different Parts of the Kingdom; the Army and Navy; Baronets, Universities, Hospitals, &c. &c. Scotland. II. All the Peers, Baronets; State, Law, Revenue, and Public Offices, Universities, Physicians, &c. Ireland. III. Both Houses of Parliament, a complete List of the Baronets, all the Law, State, Revenue, and Public Offices, Bankers, Deans, &c. &c. America. IV. Governors, Law and Revenue Officers, &c. &c. Corrected at the Respective Offices.
Description: London: Printed for J. Debrett: opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly; S. Crowder, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, W. Goldsmith, J. Bew, and S. Bladon, in Paternoster-Row; B. Law, in Ave-Maria Lane; J. Curtis, in Newgate-Street; W. March, in Ludgate-Street; T. Cadell, in the Strand; W. Richardson, at the Royal Exchange; G. and T. Wilkie, St. Paul's Church Yard; H. W. Byfield and Co. and J. Cooper, Charing-Cross. [1791] 12m (in 6s), 154 x 80 mms., pp. iv, 24, 22 - 281, with page 22 on a recto, contemporary sheepskin; front joint slightly cracked, top of spine chipped, upper rear joint cracked, but a good copy with contemporary annotations and emendations throughout, and with several lines scored out, perhaps because of fault or out-of-date information. Of particular interest are the 25+ corrections to the listing of the Members of the House of Commyons. Goldsmiths' 14607.

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