Home and Colonial Library
The Home and Colonial Library was a series of works published in London from 1843 to 1849, in 37 volumes, by John Murray III.[1] He founded it, as a series of cheap reprints, in the year of death of his father, John Murray II.[2]
Listing
- Robert Southey, Nelson
- George Borrow, The Bible in Spain[3]
- Heber, Journal in India
- Irby and Mangles, Travels; Drinkwater, Siege of Gibraltar
- Hay, Morocco and the Moors; Letters from the Baltic
- The Amber Witch; Southey, Cromwell and Bunyan
- Louisa Anne Meredith, Notes and Sketches of New South Wales; Barrow, Life of Sir Francis Drake
- Ripa, The Court of China; Matthew Gregory Lewis, Journal of a Residence Among the Negroes in the West Indies
- John Malcolm, Sketches of Persia
- French in Algiers; History of the Fall of the Jesuits
- Washington Irving, Bracebridge Hall
- Charles Darwin, Voyage of a Naturalist
- Mahon, Life of Condé
- George Borrow, Gypsies in Spain
- Herman Melville, The Marquesas Islands
- Elizabeth Rigby,[4] Livonian Tales
- The Missionary in Canada
- Gleig, Sale's Brigade in Afghanistan
- Julia Charlotte Maitland, Letters from Madras
- Charles George William St John, Highland Sports
- Sir Francis Bond Head, 1st Baronet, Stokers and Poker
Notes
- ^ 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.
- ^ Robert L. Gale (1995). A Herman Melville Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 312. ISBN 978-0-313-29011-4.
- ^ H. Manners Sutton (1851). The Lexington Papers. John Murray. pp. 375–6.
- ^ 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.