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Chambers Book of Days
''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'')〔''Chambers Book of Days'' (1864) (Chambers Harrap web site ) (this link is dead but the 1869 edition can be found here ())〕 was written by the Scottish author Robert Chambers and first published in 1864.
A new version of ''Chambers Book of Days'' was published by Chambers Harrap in 2004.〔Ian Sansom (Crunchy, but not the original ) in The Guardian December 4, 2004〕
==''The Book of Days'' (1864)==
''The Book of Days'' was Robert Chambers' last publication, and perhaps his most elaborate. It was a huge collection of short largely factual pieces which today would generally be bracketed as "trivia" but very interesting trivia. The formula has been much repeated. It is supposed that his excessive labour in connection with this book hastened his death. It was published in two large volumes, each over 840 pages long, and, for its day, was well-illustrated with engraved drawings linked to the articles. Its full title is ''The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in connection with the Calendar: including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities and Literature, and Oddities of Human Life and Character''. It is well-indexed adding much to its value as a reference tool.
Each day, listed in chronological order gives a short list of saints connected to the day and famous persons being born on that day and dying on that day. Individuals are then selected from these lists for more detailed articles. With six or seven articles per day the total number of articles, which are in the form of erudite essays, runs to around 2000, a staggering undertaking in terms of research. It is a much quoted reference in many hundreds of other reference books.
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