William Chambers of Glenormiston, Scottish publisher and politician Kickboxer Design for an evening dress

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William Chambers of Glenormiston, Scottish publisher and politician Kickboxer Design for an evening dressWilliam 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.