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 45 titles of the Library, two of those coming in 2 vols., was published in 1876.[3]
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Charles Acland | Manners and Customs in India[4] |
| Joseph Abbott | Missionary Life in Canada |
| John Barrow | Life of Sir Francis Drake |
| George Borrow | The Bible in Spain[5] |
| George Borrow | Gypsies in Spain |
| Thomas Campbell | The British Poets |
| Lord Carnarvon | Portugal and Gallicia |
| Charles Darwin | Voyage of a Naturalist |
| John Drinkwater | Siege of Gibraltar |
| William Henry Edwards | The River Amazon |
| Richard Ford | Gatherings from Spain |
| Lord Ellesmere | The Sieges of Vienna |
| George Robert Gleig | Sale's Brigade in Afghanistan |
| George Robert Gleig | Campaigns at Washington |
| George Robert Gleig | The Battle of Waterloo |
| George Robert Gleig | Life of Lord Clive |
| George Robert Gleig | Life of Munro |
| Alexander Duff Gordon | Sketches of German Life |
| Lady Duff Gordon | The Amber Witch |
| Lady Duff Gordon | The French in Algiers |
| Alexis Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest | History of the Fall of the Jesuits |
| John Hay Drummond-Hay | Morocco and the Moors |
| Henry William Haygarth | Bush Life in Australia |
| Sir Francis Bond Head, 1st Baronet | Stokers and Pokers |
| Sir Francis Bond Head, 1st Baronet | Pampas Journeys |
| Reginald Heber | Journal in India |
| Charles Leonard Irby and James Mangles | Travels in the Holy Land |
| Matthew Gregory Lewis | Journal of a Residence Among the Negroes in the West Indies |
| Lord Mahon | Life of Condé |
| Lord Mahon | Historical Essays |
| Julia Charlotte Maitland | Letters from Madras |
| John Malcolm | Sketches of Persia |
| Herman Melville | Typee and Omoo |
| Louisa Anne Meredith | Notes and Sketches of New South Wales |
| Edward Augustus Milman | The Wayside Cross; or, the Raid of Gomez, a tale of the Carlist War |
| Elizabeth Rigby,[6] | Livonian Tales |
| Matteo Ripa | The Court of China |
| George Frederick Ruxton | Adventures in Mexico |
| Bayle St John | The Libyan Desert |
| Charles George William St John | Highland Sports |
| Robert Southey | Cromwell and Bunyan |
| Henrik Steffens | Autobiography |
| "A Lady" | Letters from the Baltic |
| "A Lady" | Letters from Madras |
| "A Lady" | Sierra Leone |
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.
- ^ s:Page:Memoir and correspondence of Caroline Herschel (1876).djvu/398
- ^ "A Popular Account of the Manners and Customs of India : Charles Acland : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive". Internet Archive. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- ^ 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.