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

Author Title
John Barrow Life of Sir Francis Drake
George Borrow The Bible in Spain[4]
George Borrow Gypsies in Spain
Charles Darwin Voyage of a Naturalist
John Drinkwater Siege of Gibraltar
[[Lady Duff Gordon The Amber Witch
J. Drummons Hay Morocco and the Moors
Sir Francis Bond Head, 1st Baronet Stokers and Pokers
Reginald Heber Journal in India
Matthew Gregory Lewis Journal of a Residence Among the Negroes in the West Indies
Julia Charlotte Maitland Letters from Madras
John Malcolm Sketches of Persia
Irby and James Mangles Travels
Louisa Anne Meredith Notes and Sketches of New South Wales
Letters from the Baltic
Ripa The Court of China
Southey Cromwell and Bunyan
French in Algiers
History of the Fall of the Jesuits
Washington Irving Bracebridge Hall
Mahon Life of Condé
Herman Melville The Marquesas Islands
Elizabeth Rigby,[5] Livonian Tales
The Missionary in Canada
Gleig Sale's Brigade in Afghanistan
Charles George William St John Highland Sports
Robert Southey Nelson

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. ^ H. Manners Sutton (1851). The Lexington Papers. John Murray. pp. 375–6.
  5. ^ 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.