Chambers's repository of instructive and amusing tracts.
Contributors: Chambers, William, 1800-1883; Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871; Hickson, Rachael; W.&R. Chambers Ltd.
Publisher: William and Robert Chambers
Published: 1853
Place of publication: London; Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 31
Other titles: Chambers's repository; Chambers's repository :
Notes: Volume VI of this publication issued in 12 volumes by William and Robert Chambers from 1852-1854.  Cf. British Library Public Catalogue.

Date taken from printer's imprint, verso of contents page.

T.p. printed within double rule border.  Publisher's monogrammatic device printed on t.p.

Includes wood-engraved head-piece and small decorative and illustrated intials.

Most wood-engraved illustrations within the text are unsigned.  Two are signed "Kennedy." and one is signed "J.M.C.".

"Price one shilling"--Cover.

MASS copy: Bound in glazed pink paper-covered boards printed in blue and red.  Upper and lower covers printed in blue with titling and red decorative border.  With blue and white diamond patterned endpapers.  Upper and lower paste-down endpapers printed in blue with publisher's advertisements.  With bookseller's ink stamp: "R. Hickson  Bookseller [Bridlington?]" [i.e. Rachael Hickson?].  With bookplate: "Ex libris C. J. Peacock.". 
Table of contents: value: Irish tours and tourists in 1853; value: The trial of Charles I.; value: Maud the sorceress; value: A visit to Holland; value: The search for Sir John Franklin; value: Constancia de Gonsalvo; value: Montenegro and the Montenegrins; value: Spirit of the Iliad.