Home and Colonial Library

The Home and Colonial Library was a series of works published in London from 1843 to 1849, comprising 49 titles, by John Murray III. He founded it, as a series of cheap reprints, original works and translations, slanted towards travel literature in the broad sense, in the year of death of his father, John Murray II.[1][2]

Listing

This listing of 44 titles of the Library, two of those coming in 2 vols., was published in 1876.[3]

Author Title
Charles AclandManners and Customs in India[4]
Joseph AbbottMissionary Life in Canada
John BarrowLife of Sir Francis Drake
George BorrowThe Bible in Spain[5]
George BorrowGypsies in Spain
Thomas CampbellThe British Poets
Charles DarwinVoyage of a Naturalist
John DrinkwaterSiege of Gibraltar
John Hay Drummond-HayMorocco and the Moors
William Henry EdwardsThe River Amazon
Richard FordGatherings from Spain
Lord EllesmereThe Sieges of Vienna
George Robert GleigSale's Brigade in Afghanistan
George Robert GleigCampaigns at Washington
George Robert GleigThe Battle of Waterloo
George Robert GleigLife of Lord Clive
George Robert GleigLife of Munro
Alexander Duff GordonSketches of German Life
Lucie, Lady Duff-GordonThe Amber Witch
Lucie, Lady Duff-GordonThe French in Algiers
Alexis Guignard, comte de Saint-PriestHistory of the Fall of the Jesuits
Henry William HaygarthBush Life in Australia
Sir Francis Bond Head, 1st BaronetStokers and Pokers
Sir Francis Bond Head, 1st BaronetPampas Journeys
Reginald HeberJournal in India
Henry Herbert, 3rd Earl of CarnarvonPortugal and Galicia
Charles Leonard Irby and James ManglesTravels in the Holy Land
Matthew Gregory LewisJournal of a Residence Among the Negroes in the West Indies
Lord MahonLife of Condé
Lord MahonHistorical Essays
Julia Charlotte MaitlandLetters from Madras: During the Years 1836-1839[6]
John MalcolmSketches of Persia
Herman MelvilleTypee and Omoo
Louisa Anne MeredithNotes and Sketches of New South Wales
Edward Augustus MilmanThe Wayside Cross; or, the Raid of Gomez, a tale of the Carlist War
Elizabeth Rigby,[7]Livonian Tales
"A Lady" (Elizabeth Rigby)[8]Letters from the Shores of the Baltic
Matteo RipaThe Court of China
George Frederick RuxtonAdventures in Mexico
Bayle St JohnThe Libyan Desert
Charles George William St JohnHighland Sports
Robert SoutheyCromwell and Bunyan
Henrik SteffensAutobiography
"A Lady" (missionary who used the pseudonym Mary Church)[9]Letters from Sierra Leone

Originally there were some extra titles, or works later substituted. Two books were often printed in one volume, and 49 works in all were in 37 volumes. Washington Irving's Bracebridge Hall, Traveller's Tales and Oliver Goldsmith were included. There were also the Memoirs of Sir Fowell Buxton.[10] Melville's works Typee and Omoo were at first issued separately.[11] Murray required that Typee appear as Four Months among the Natives of the Marquesas.[12]

Notes

  1. ↑ Innes M. Keighren; Charles W. J. Withers; Bill Bell (6 May 2015). Travels Into Print: Exploration, Writing, and Publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859. University of Chicago Press. p. 204. ISBN 978-0-226-42953-3.
  2. ↑ Robert L. Gale (1995). A Herman Melville Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 312. ISBN 978-0-313-29011-4.
  3. ↑ s:Page:Memoir and correspondence of Caroline Herschel (1876).djvu/398
  4. ↑ "A Popular Account of the Manners and Customs of India : Charles Acland : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive". Internet Archive. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
  5. ↑ H. Manners Sutton (1851). The Lexington Papers. John Murray. pp. 375–6.
  6. ↑ Julia Charlotte Maitland (1846). Letters from Madras: During the Years 1836-1839. J. Murray. p. 82.
  7. ↑ Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake; Julie Sheldon (2009). The Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. Liverpool University Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-1-84631-194-9.
  8. ↑ Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake (1842). Letters from the Shores of the Baltic. J. Murray.
  9. ↑ Caroline Shaw (2015). Britannia's Embrace: Modern Humanitarianism and the Imperial Origins of Refugee Relief. Oxford University Press. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-19-020098-5.
  10. ↑ Sir John Barrow (1846). Voyages of Discovery and Research Within the Arctic Regions, from the Year 1818 to the Present Time: Under the Command of the Several Naval Officers Employed by Sea and Land in Search of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Two Attempts to Reach the North Pole. Abridged and Arranged from the Official Narratives, with Occasional Remarks. Harper & Brothers. p. 15.
  11. ↑ Aileen Fyfe (17 July 2004). Science and Salvation: Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain. University of Chicago Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-0-226-27648-9.
  12. ↑ Royal A. Gettmann (10 June 2010). A Victorian Publisher: A Study of the Bentley Papers. Cambridge University Press. pp. 164–. ISBN 978-0-521-15320-1.
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