Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics.
Call Number
2006-3077N
Identifier
ark:/88435/fj236b59q
Publisher
[London] : Printed, for R. Ackermann, by L. Harrison ..., [1809-1815]
Language
English
Date Created
1809-1815
Extent
14 v. : ill. (some col.), ports., samples ; 25 cm. (4to)
Vol. 1 (Jan./June 1809)-v. 14 (July/Dec. 1815) = 1st-84th no.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Engraved title page, with vignette.
Imprint from colophon (varies: v. 2 (July/Dec. 1809), Harrison and Rutter; v. 11-12 (1814), L. Harrison & J.C. Leigh)
"List of plates in each number: 1. & 2. Ladies fashionable dresses ... 3. Fashionable furniture, or fashionable carriages, or new implements of husbandry, manufacture, &c. 4. Inside view of a fashionable magazine or shop ... 5. Sporting subject ... 6. A beautiful wood-cut, with real patterns of the most fashionable articles ... "--Cf. "Prospectus" at end of the 4th no. (April 1809)
Some numbers include advertisements at end.
Vol. 1 (Jan./June 1809)-v. 4 (July/Dec. 1810) include Supplement, with index.
Editor: Frederic Shoberl, 3rd no. (Mar. 1809)-84th no. (Dec. 1815)
References: Abbey, J.R. Life in England 212.
Title varies slightly.

Discovery Information

Subject
Fashion—Periodicals
Decoration and ornament—Periodicals
Great Britain—Social life and customs—Periodicals
Periodicals

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
Holding location
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IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/961b5eca-e131-47a9-a291-828af1981398/manifest