1774 [sic]. Vol. I. [Aug. 1774-July 1775]

Ceased in 1776.

Title page of vol. 1 is engraved; v. 2 is letterpress.

Monthly issues have caption titles with month and year of issue.

Imprints lack year of publication; dated from monthly issues.

Imprints vary; v. 2 reads: "London: printed for T. Bell, (no. 26), Bell-Yard, Temple-Bar, and sold by all the booksellers".

Title page includes contents note.

With continuous pagination in each volume.

Frontis. engravings for monthly issues signed: "Terry del. et sculp".

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]".

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

Collects monthly issues of this periodical.

Whimsical repository

General receptacle

The Whimsical repository; or, General receptacle of wit, humour & entertainment

The Whimsical repository

Listner. No.1-<6>.

New Cambridge bibliography of English literature, II:1305

English short title catalogue, P2812.

Washington, George, 1709-1799 > Biography > Periodicals > Early works to 1800.

Anecdotes > England > Periodicals > Early works to 1800.

Wit and humor > Periodicals > Early works to 1800.

England > Intellectual life > Periodicals > Early works to 1800.