Chambers 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 charact (Deluxe ed)

"Chambers Book of Days" combines a calendar of folklore with information on seasonal celebrations, festivals and much more, presented season by season, month by month and day by day.

Illustrated throughout with finely detailed engravings from the 1864 book of the same name, this beautifully produced book also gives readers an opportunity to appreciate Robert Chambers's distinctive, lively and occasionally eccentric prose style, shown to advantage in a supplement of fascinating articles reproduced from the Victorian edition.