Murray's Family Library
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Murray's Family Library was a series of non-fiction works published from 1829 to 1834, by John Murray, in 51 volumes. The series editor was John Gibson Lockhart, who also wrote the first book, a biography of Napoleon.[1] The books were priced at five shillings;[2] Murray's approach, which did not involve part-publication, is considered a fundamentally more conservative business model, and intention, than used by the contemporary library of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.[3]
Original Library
Volume | Year | Author | Title |
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I (2 vols.) | 1829[4] | John Gibson Lockhart[1] | The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte[5] |
III | 1829[6] | John Williams | The Life and Actions of Alexander the Great[5][7] |
IV, X, XIII, XIX, XXVII, XXXVIII | 1829–31 | Allan Cunningham[8] | Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors and Architects[5][9] |
V, VI and IX | Vol. V August 1829[6] | Henry Hart Milman[10] | The History of the Jews[5] |
VII, LI | 1829[6] | Anonymous (a number of authors;[6] Robert Ferguson)[9][11] | The Natural History of Insects[5] |
VIII | 1829 | Anonymous (S. Dunham Whitehead)[6] | The Court and Camp of Buonaparte[5] |
XI | 1830[6] | Washington Irving | The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (abridged)[5] |
XII | 1830[6] | Robert Southey | The Life of Nelson, third edition[5] |
XIV | 1830[6] | Anonymous (William Macmichael and others; memoir of Caleb Hillier Parry by his son W. C. Parry)[6][12] | Lives of Eminent British Physicians[5] |
XV, XLVIII, XLIX, L | 1830[13] | George Robert Gleig | The History of British India[5][9] |
XVI | 1830[13] | Walter Scott | Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft[14] |
XVII | 1830[13] | Francis Bond Head | Life of Bruce the African Traveller[14] |
XVIII | 1830[13] | Irving | Companions of Columbus[9] |
XX, XXXII | Vol. XX 1831[13] | Anonymous, (Edward Smedley)[15] | Sketches from Venetian History[9][16] |
XXI | 1831[13] | Francis Palgrave | History of England[9] |
XXII, XXXIV, XXXVII | Vol. XXII 1831 | Patrick Fraser Tytler | Lives of Scottish Worthies[9] |
XXIII | 1831 | Anonymous (John Barrow)[13] | Family Tour through South Holland[9] |
XXIV | 1831[13] | David Brewster | Life of Sir Isaac Newton[9] |
XXV | 1831[13] | Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet | The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty[9] |
XXVI (2 vols.) | Vol. XXVI December 1831[13] | John James Blunt | Reformation in England[9][17] |
XXVIII (3 vols.) | 1832[13] | John Lander and Richard Lander, editor Alexander Bridport Becher[13] | Adventures in the Niger[9] |
XXXI | 1832[13] | Anonymous (Charles Edward Dodd)[13] | The Trials of Charles I, and of some of the Regicides[18] |
XXXIII | 1832[19] | Brewster | Letters on Natural Magic[9] |
XXXV | 1832[19] | Sir John Barrow[19] | Life of Peter the Great[9] |
XXXVI | 1832[19] | Henry Nelson Coleridge | Six Months in the West Indies[9] |
XXXIX (2 vols.) | 1834[19] | Irving[19] | Sketch Book[9] |
XLI (6 vols.) | 1834[19] | Alexander Fraser Tytler[19] | Universal History[9] |
XLVII | 22 September 1834.[19] | Crofton Croker[19] | Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, 2nd edition illustrated by Daniel Maclise[9][20] |
Subsequent additions
In 1834 Murray sold out to Thomas Tegg.[21] Further volumes were added to the Library, under Tegg's management. There was a total of 80 volumes, by 1847.[22]
Volume | Year | Author | Title |
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LII | Daniel Defoe | History of the Plague[9] Notes by E. W. Brayley[22] | |
LIII (2 vols.) | Cyrus R. Edmonds | Life and Times of George Washington[9] | |
LV | Irving | Knickerbocker's History of New York[9][22] | |
LVI (3 vols.) | John Wesley | A Compendium of Natural Philosophy[9] | |
LIX (2 vols.) | Philippe-Paul de Ségur | Bonaparte's Campaigns in Russia[9] | |
LXI | 1837 | Richard Alfred Davenport[23] | Life of Ali Pasha, of Tepelini[9] |
LXII | Charles Macfarlane[24] | Lives and Exploits of Banditti and Robbers[9] | |
LXIII | Davenport[23] | Sketches of Imposture, Decepture and Credulity[9] | |
LXIV | 1838 | Davenport[23] | History of the Bastile[9] |
LXV | James Francis Hollings | Life of Gustavus Adolphus[9] | |
LXVI | Richard Thomson[22] | Chronicles of London Bridge[9] | |
LXVII | Charles Bucke | Life of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough[9] | |
LXVII | 1839 | Thomas Roscoe | The Life and Writings of Miguel de Cervantes (1839), based on Martín Fernández de Navarrete.[25][26] |
LXIX | 1839 | Hollings | Cicero's Life[22][27] |
LXX (2 vols.) | 1840 | Bucke | Ruins of Ancient Cities[28][29] |
LXXII | 1840 | William Edmonstoune Aytoun | Life and Times of Richard I[22][30][31] |
LXXIII | 1840 | Samuel Green | Life of Mahomet[22][32][33] |
LXXIV (2 vols.) | Davenport | Narrative of Perils and Sufferings[22][34] | |
(3 vols.) | 1841 | John Chetwode Eustace | Classical Tour through Italy, 8th edition[22][35] |
LXXIX | Davenport | Lives of Individuals who have Raised Themselves from Poverty to Eminence or Fortune[36] | |
LXXX | 1842 | Anonymous (William Johnson Neale) | History of the Mutiny at Spithead and the Nore[37] |
References
- Scott Bennett, John Murray's Family Library and the Cheapening of Books in Early Nineteenth Century Britain, Studies in Bibliography Vol. 29, (1976), pp. 139–166. Published by: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40371632
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