THE DIARY, OR WOODFALL'S REGISTER, London, Feb. 20, 1790  Various news reports from Europe. The front page has an interesting ad for chimney sweeps, headed: "Sweeping of Chimneys" which is quite detailed.
The front page has a partial red tax stamp.
Four pages, nice condition.

Background: This February 20, 1790 issue of The Diary, or Woodfall's Register holds notable historical and collectible value, principally because it was produced and edited by William "Memory" Woodfall—the famed printer renowned for his extraordinary ability to memorize lengthy Parliamentary debates word-for-word and publish them without taking notes, an illegal act at the time. Beyond its publisher's pedigree, the front page offers a fascinating piece of social history through its detailed "Sweeping of Chimneys" advertisement, published just two years after the landmark Chimney Sweepers Act of 1788 attempted to curb the exploitation and notoriously dangerous working conditions of child climbing boys in Georgian London. Visually and historically elevated by its authentic red British Stamp Duty tax mark—a fiscal levy intended to raise revenue and suppress radical journalism—this complete, four-page folio survives in unusually nice condition, making it a scarce and highly desirable primary-source artifact for collectors of early press history and 18th-century ephemera.