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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

Year Author Title
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

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. ^ H. Manners Sutton (1851). The Lexington Papers. John Murray. pp. 375–6.
  4. ^ 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.