Chambers Book of Days

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Chambers Book of Days

The Chambers Book of Days (The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character) was written by the Scottish

Scotland

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author Robert Chambers

Robert Chambers

Robert Chambers , was a Scotland author, periodical editor and publisher, who together in partnership with his older brother William Chambers of Glenormiston the publisher and politician were both highly influential in the mid-19th century in both scientific and political circles....
and first published in 1832.

A new version was published by Chambers Harrap

Chambers Harrap

Chambers Harrap Publishers is a reference publisher based in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom and now holds the property rights of the venerable W.R.Chambers Publishers and its competitor George G....
known as the Chambers Book of Days (2004)

Chambers Book of Days (1832)
The Book of Days was Robert Chambers' last publication, and perhaps his most elaborate.

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Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
author Robert Chambers

Robert Chambers

Chambers Harrap

Chambers Book of Days (1832)

The Book of Days was Robert Chambers' last publication, and perhaps his most elaborate. It was a miscellany of popular antiquities in connection with the calendar, and it is supposed that his excessive labour in connexion with this book hastened his death. Two years before, the University of St Andrews

University of St Andrews

The University of St Andrews is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation university in Scotland and third oldest in the English-speaking world, having been founded between 1410 and 1413....
had conferred upon him the degree of doctor of laws, and he was elected a member of the Athenaeum Club

Athenaeum Club

Athenaeum Club may refer to:*Athenaeum Club, London, a private gentlemen's club situated in London, England.*Athenaeum Club, Melbourne, a private gentlemen's club situated in Melbourne, Australia....
in London. It is his highest claim to distinction that he did so much to give a healthy tone to the cheap popular literature which has become so important a factor in modern civilization.

Chambers Book of Days (2004)

Chambers Harrap published a new Book of Days in 2004, Rosalind Fergusson wrote for the Chambers Harrap website that:

Like its illustrious predecessor, Chambers Book of Days (2004) is a compendium of information relating to the days, months, and seasons of the year, selected and presented with the personal touch of the author. ... At the same time, the style of Chambers Book of Days (1864) has been preserved by the inclusion of numerous passage from the original volumes, and the selection of these was one of the current author’s more pleasurable tasks. It is hard to surpass Robert Chambers’ lyrical descriptions of the characteristics of the changing seasons, for example, extracts of which are included at the beginning of each month.

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from the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center.