Peacock's polite repository, or, Pocket companion
Subtitle: containing an almanack, the births, marriages, &c. of the sovereign princes of Europe : lists of both houses of Parliament, officers of state, navy and army, the baronets of England : and various other articles of useful information : ornamented with elegant engravings and ruled pages for occurrences, cash account, &c. &c. : to be continued annually
Publisher: Printed for W. Peacock & Sons, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street
Published: 1806
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
Subjects: Calendars; Almanacs; English Almanacs; Registers; Officials and employees; Description and travel
Other titles: Polite repository; Pocket companion; High Tor at Matlock, in Derbyshire.
Notes: Issued in leather case.

William Peacock's Polite Repository was a "yearly almanac-cum-diary distinguished by its elegance and miniature scenic engravings"--"Humphry Repton, illustrator, and William Peacock's Polite repository 1790-1811", by Nigel Temple, in Garden history, volume 16, number 2, Autumn 1988, page 161.

Dated at head of the title: MDCCCVII.

"The whole of the views are engraved by Mr. John Peltro, from the original drawings of H. Repton, Esq."--Page 6.

Titled illustrations (engravings): The high Tor at Matlock, in Derbyshire (Frontispiece) / Drawn by H. Repton Esq, engraved by John Peltro -- Bel-House, Essex seat of Sir Thos. Barrett Lennard Bart. -- Langold, Yorkshire, seat of H.G. Knight, Esq. -- Oxnead Hall, Norfolk, seat of Lord Viscount Anson -- Gillwell House, Essex, seat of W. Chinnery, Esq. -- Knole in Kent, seat of His Grace, the Duke of Dorset -- The Lake at Balcomb in Sussex, the residence of the Rev. H. Chatfield -- Scene at Stoneland in Sussex, seat of Lord Whitworth -- The green-house at West Hill, Wandsworth, seat of H.D. Rucker, Esq. -- Scene at Rendlesham, in Suffolk, seat of Lord Rendlesham -- Lee in Kent, seat of Sir Francis Baring Bart. -- Stockwell Parsonage, in Worcestershire, from the Turnpike Road -- Scene on the Terne, Shropshire.

Illustrations (vignettes) appear at the head of the verso of the monthly double spreads of the engraved calendar pages; captions on the prints Jan-Dec. give the name of the estate or site, diary pages [2] at beginning and end of the calendar pages have no captions.

Lib. copy is softcover, bound in patterned red, cream, and dark green leather with onlays, heavily gilt, with matching leather slip-case; all-edges gilt, marbled endpapers; text memoranda blanks filled with handwritten verses, proverbs, etc., in contemporary ink, through April.