William Chambers of Glenormiston, Scottish publisher and politician mb-artistname Percy R. Craft View of a Sheriff of

View of a Sheriff of London

(August 1910)

Today Kensington Palace is the official residence of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester

Plate 1 from the book Observations on the cow-pock

William Chambers of Glenormiston, Scottish publisher and politician mb-artistname Percy R. Craft View of a Sheriff ofWilliam Chambers of Glenormiston, Scottish publisher and politician, c1890. Together with his younger brother, Robert, Chambers (1800 1883) was a successful publisher of books of Scottish interest. In 1859 they produced the first edition of Chambers's Encyclopedia. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890.