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The Whimsical repository, or General receptacle : Of wit, humour & entertainment; containing ... for the year.

Format Electronic, Book, and Journal
Publication InfoLondon [England] : printed for R : Snagg, no 29 Paternoster-Row, & sold by all the booksellers in Great Britain & Ireland, 1774-1775.
Descriptionvolumes, plates (some folded) ; 8⁰.
Supplemental Content Full text online
Subject(s)
Variant title Whimsical repository
Portion of title General receptacle
Caption title Whimsical repository; or, General receptacle of wit, humour & entertainment
Running title Whimsical repository
FrequencyAnnual (collected issues)
General noteTitle page of vol. 1 is engraved; v. 2 is letterpress.
General noteMonthly issues have caption titles with month and year of issue.
General noteImprints lack year of publication; dated from monthly issues.
General noteImprints vary; v. 2 reads: "London: printed for T. Bell, (no. 26), Bell-Yard, Temple-Bar, and sold by all the booksellers".
General noteTitle page includes contents note.
General noteWith continuous pagination in each volume.
General noteFrontis. engravings for monthly issues signed: "Terry del. et sculp".
General noteIncludes 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 noteReproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
References NCBEL, II:1305
References English Short Title Catalog, P2812.
Special numberingIssues lack numeration; chronological designation only.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Title history noteCollects monthly issues of this periodical.
Genre/formPeriodicals England 18th century.
Other titleListner. No.1-<6>.

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