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, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street
Published: 1800
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Almanacs; English Almanacs; Registers; Officials and employees; Calendars; Description and travel; Pictorial works
Other titles: Polite repository; Pocket companion; Straits of Menai, from Anglesea.
Notes: 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 repositry 1790-1811", by Nigel Temple, in Garden history, volume 16, number 2, Autumn 1988, page 161.

Dated at head of the title: MDCCC.

Frontispiece: The Straits of Menai, from Anglesea; drawn by H. Repton Esq., engraved by J. Peltro.

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; illustrations at beginning and end of the calendar pages have no captions.

title page at top has in pencil:

Library copy has salmon-colored wrappers.

Library copy has note in pencil on page [2] of cover: Plutarch's Lives, Pleasures of imagination, Pleasures of memory, Homer's Odyssey.

Library copy has note in pencil on recto of 2nd front free endpaper: Every soldier owes his heart to his fair one, his faith to his God, his arm to his [illegible].

Library copy has note in pencil on recto of last free endpaper: The history of the reign of George the 3rd., In four large volumes 8vo, [illegible] 1.5.

Library copy has note in pencil on page [3] of cover: Mathias Greenwood, Umbrella maker, Halifax.