Home and Colonial Library
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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.{{cite book|author1=Innes M. Keighren|author2=Charles W. J. Withers|author3=Bill Bell|title=Travels Into Print: Exploration, Writing, and Publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UjHJBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA204|date=6 May 2015|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-42953-3|page=204}}{{cite book|author=Robert L. Gale|title=A Herman Melville Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M7Fo3O4f9PkC&pg=PA312|year=1995|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-29011-4|page=312}}
Listing
This listing of 44 titles of the Library, two of those coming in 2 vols., was published in 1876.s:Page:Memoir and correspondence of Caroline Herschel (1876).djvu/398
Originally there were some extra titles, or works later substituted. Two books were often printed in one volume, and 49 works in all were in 37 volumes. Washington Irving's Bracebridge Hall, Traveller's Tales and Oliver Goldsmith were included. There were also the Memoirs of Sir Fowell Buxton.{{cite book|author=Sir John Barrow|title=Voyages of Discovery and Research Within the Arctic Regions, from the Year 1818 to the Present Time: Under the Command of the Several Naval Officers Employed by Sea and Land in Search of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Two Attempts to Reach the North Pole. Abridged and Arranged from the Official Narratives, with Occasional Remarks|url=https://archive.org/details/voyagesdiscover01barrgoog|year=1846|publisher=Harper & Brothers|page=[https://archive.org/details/voyagesdiscover01barrgoog/page/n37 15]}} Melville's works Typee and Omoo were at first issued separately.{{cite book|author=Aileen Fyfe|title=Science and Salvation: Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u1kh_cZxtmEC&pg=PA153|date=17 July 2004|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-27648-9|page=153}} Murray required that Typee appear as Four Months among the Natives of the Marquesas.{{cite book|author=Royal A. Gettmann|title=A Victorian Publisher: A Study of the Bentley Papers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=42SO3djLc0sC&pg=PA164|date=10 June 2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-15320-1|pages=164–}}
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External links
- [http://www.publishinghistory.com/home-and-colonial-library-john-murray.html Home and Colonial Library (John Murray) - Book Series List] - includes series description