Variant title |
Whimsical repository |
Portion of title |
General receptacle |
Caption title |
Whimsical repository; or, General receptacle of wit, humour & entertainment |
Running title |
Whimsical repository |
Frequency | Annual (collected issues) |
General note | Title page of vol. 1 is engraved; v. 2 is letterpress. |
General note | Monthly issues have caption titles with month and year of issue. |
General note | Imprints lack year of publication; dated from monthly issues. |
General note | Imprints vary; v. 2 reads: "London: printed for T. Bell, (no. 26), Bell-Yard, Temple-Bar, and sold by all the booksellers". |
General note | Title page includes contents note. |
General note | With continuous pagination in each volume. |
General note | Frontis. engravings for monthly issues signed: "Terry del. et sculp". |
General note | Includes biographical anecdotes, miscellaneous excerpts from essays, speeches, histories, serialized adventure stories, correspondence, amusing or unusual news notes and selections of poetry. The Oct. 1775 number includes a brief biographical note on Geo. Washington. Includes a series of numbered essays: "The Listner [sic]". |
General note | Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford). |
References |
NCBEL, II:1305 |
References |
English Short Title Catalog, P2812. |
Special numbering | Issues lack numeration; chronological designation only. |
Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
Title history note | Collects monthly issues of this periodical. |
Genre/form | Periodicals England 18th century. |
Other title | Listner. No.1-<6>. |