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
| 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 | |
| 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 Pokers |
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.