Murray's Family Library

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.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Lockhart, John Gibson|volume=34}} The books were priced at five shillings;{{cite book|author1=Robert A. Gross|author2=Mary Kelley|title=An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kpineDfG-1EC&pg=PA129|accessdate=28 September 2013|year=2010|publisher=UNC Press Books|isbn=978-0-8078-3339-1|page=129}} 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.{{cite book|author=N. N. Feltes|title=Modes of Production of Victorian Novels|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G99CBLJSk8MC&pg=PA11|accessdate=28 September 2013|date=15 May 1989|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-24118-0|page=11}}

Original ''Library''

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!Volume

!Year

!Author

!Title

I (2 vols.)

|1829Bennett, p. 162.

|John Gibson Lockhart

|The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte{{cite book|author=Philip Massinger|title=The plays of Philip Massinger, adapted for family reading and the use of young persons|url=https://archive.org/details/playsofphilipma02mass|accessdate=28 September 2013|year=1830|page=[https://archive.org/details/playsofphilipma02mass/page/n22 3]}}

III

|1829Bennett, p. 163.

|John Williams

|The Life and Actions of Alexander the Great{{cite DNB|wstitle=Williams, John (1792-1858)|volume=61}}

IV, X, XIII, XIX, XXVII, XXXVIII

|1829–31

|Allan Cunningham{{Cite ODNB|id=6918|title=Cunningham, Allan|first=Hamish|last=Whyte}}

|Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors and Architects{{cite book|author1=London catalogue|author2=Robert Bent|title=The London Catalogue of Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f4kIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA75|accessdate=28 September 2013|year=1839|page=75}}

V, VI and IX

|Vol. V August 1829

|Henry Hart Milman{{cite DNB|wstitle=Milman, Henry Hart|volume=38}}

|The History of the Jews

VII, LI

|1829

|Anonymous (a number of authors; Robert Ferguson){{cite DNB|wstitle=Ferguson, Robert (1799-1865)|volume=18}}

|The Natural History of Insects

VIII

|1829

|Anonymous (S. Dunham Whitehead)

|The Court and Camp of Buonaparte

|1830

|Washington Irving

|The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (abridged)

XII

|1830

|Robert Southey

|The Life of Nelson, third edition

XIV

|1830

|Anonymous (William Macmichael and others; memoir of Caleb Hillier Parry by his son W. C. Parry){{cite DNB|wstitle=Parry, Caleb Hillier|volume=43}}

|Lives of Eminent British Physicians

XV, XLVIII, XLIX, L

|1830Bennett, p. 164.

|George Robert Gleig

|The History of British India

XVI

|1830

|Walter Scott

|Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft{{cite book|author=Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand)|title=Bertha's visit to her uncle in England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z3EFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA288|accessdate=28 September 2013|year=1831|publisher=J. Murray|page=288}}

XVII

|1830

|Francis Bond Head

|Life of Bruce the African Traveller

XVIII

|1830

|Irving

|Companions of Columbus

XX, XXXII

|Vol. XX 1831

|Anonymous, (Edward Smedley){{cite DNB|wstitle=Smedley, Edward|volume=52}}

|Sketches from Venetian History{{cite book|title=Sketches from Venetian history|url=https://archive.org/details/sketchesfromvene01smed|accessdate=28 September 2013|year=1831|publisher=John Murray}}

XXI

|1831

|Francis Palgrave

|History of England

XXII, XXXIV, XXXVII

|Vol. XXII 1831

|Patrick Fraser Tytler

|Lives of Scottish Worthies

XXIII

|1831

|Anonymous (John Barrow)

|Family Tour through South Holland

XXIV

|1831

|David Brewster

|Life of Sir Isaac Newton

XXV

|1831

|Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet

|The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty

XXVI (2 vols.)

|Vol. XXVI December 1831

|John James Blunt

|Reformation in England{{cite DNB|wstitle=Blunt, John James|volume=5}}

XXVIII (3 vols.)

|1832

|John Lander and Richard Lander, editor Alexander Bridport Becher

|Adventures in the Niger

XXXI

|1832

|Anonymous (Charles Edward Dodd)

|The Trials of Charles I, and of some of the Regicides{{cite book|title=The trials of Charles the First: and of some of the regicides|url=https://archive.org/details/trialscharlesfi00petegoog|accessdate=28 September 2013|year=1832|publisher=J. Murray}}

XXXIII

|1832Bennett, p. 165.

|Brewster

|Letters on Natural Magic

XXXV

|1832

|Sir John Barrow

|Life of Peter the Great

XXXVI

|1832

|Henry Nelson Coleridge

|Six Months in the West Indies

XXXIX (2 vols.)

|1834

|Irving

|Sketch Book

XLI (6 vols.)

|1834

|Alexander Fraser Tytler

|Universal History

XLVII

|22 September 1834.

|Crofton Croker

|Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, 2nd edition illustrated by Daniel Maclise{{cite DNB|wstitle=Maclise, Daniel|volume=35}}

Subsequent additions

In 1834 Murray sold out to Thomas Tegg.{{Cite ODNB|id=27102|title=Tegg, Thomas|first1=James J.|last1=Barnes|first2=Patience P.|last2=Barnes}} Further volumes were added to the Library, under Tegg's management. There was a total of 80 volumes, by 1847.{{Cite book|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106020066293;view=1up;seq=345|title = Appendix to the Bibliographer's manual of English literature.Containing an account of books issued by literary and scientific societies and printing clubs; books printed at private presses; privately printed series; and the principal literary and scientific serials|date = 8 August 1864}}

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!Volume

!Year

!Author

!Title

LII

|Daniel Defoe

|History of the Plague Notes by E. W. Brayley

LIII (2 vols.)

|Cyrus R. Edmonds

|Life and Times of George Washington

|Irving

|Knickerbocker's History of New York

LVI (3 vols.)

|John Wesley

|A Compendium of Natural Philosophy

LIX (2 vols.)

|Philippe-Paul de Ségur

|Bonaparte's Campaigns in Russia

LXI

|1837

|Richard Alfred Davenport{{cite DNB|wstitle=Davenport, Richard Alfred|volume=14}}

|Life of Ali Pasha, of Tepelini

LXII

|Charles Macfarlane{{cite DNB|wstitle=Macfarlane, Charles|volume=35}}

|Lives and Exploits of Banditti and Robbers

LXIII

|Davenport

|Sketches of Imposture, Decepture and Credulity

LXIV

|1838

|Davenport

|History of the Bastile

LXV

|James Francis Hollings

|Life of Gustavus Adolphus

LXVI

|Richard Thomson

|Chronicles of London Bridge

LXVII

|Charles Bucke

|Life of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough

LXVII

|1839

|Thomas Roscoe

|The Life and Writings of Miguel de Cervantes (1839), based on Martín Fernández de Navarrete.{{cite book|author=Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)|title=Penny cyclopaedia of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge: Second supplement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3TFQAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA448|accessdate=28 September 2013|year=1858|publisher=Knight & co.|page=448}}{{cite book|title=Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi B. Bandinel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C6ZFAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA808|accessdate=30 September 2013|year=1851|publisher=Typogr. Acad.|page=808}}

LXIX

|1839

|Hollings

|Cicero's Life{{cite book|title=The Quarterly Review (London)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h6-vx6wE02AC&pg=RA2-PA26|accessdate=30 September 2013|year=1839|publisher=John Murray|page=26}}

LXX (2 vols.)

|1840

|Bucke

|Ruins of Ancient Cities{{cite book|author=Charles Bucke|title=Ruins of Ancient Cities, 2: With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall and Present Condition|url=https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.2653|accessdate=29 September 2013|year=1840|publisher=Thomas Tegg}}{{cite book|author1=Hugh James Rose|author-link=Hugh James Rose|author2=Samuel Roffey Maitland|author2-link=Samuel Roffey Maitland|title=The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information, Parochial History, and Documents Respecting the State of the Poor, Progress of Education, Etc|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c4ZPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA239|accessdate=30 September 2013|year=1840|publisher=J. Petheram|page=239}}

LXXII

|1840

|William Edmonstoune Aytoun

|Life and Times of Richard I{{cite DNB|wstitle=Aytoun, William Edmonstoune|volume=2}}{{cite book|author1=Bodleian Library|author2=Alfred Hackman|author3=Henry Cary|author4=Arthur Browne|title=Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XqwxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA58|accessdate=30 September 2013|year=1851|publisher=e Typographeo academico|pages=58–}}

LXXIII

|1840

|Samuel Green

|Life of Mahomet{{cite book|author=Samuel Green|title=The Life of Mahomet Founder of the Religion of Islam and If the Empire of the Saracens: With Notices of the History of Islamism and of Arabia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E7rkGJ4bhbwC|accessdate=29 September 2013|year=1840|publisher=T. Tegg}}{{cite book|title=The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YcRLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA351|accessdate=30 September 2013|year=1840|publisher=W.A. Scripps|page=351}}

LXXIV (2 vols.)

|Davenport

|Narrative of Perils and Sufferings{{cite book|title=The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YcRLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA695|accessdate=30 September 2013|year=1840|publisher=W.A. Scripps|page=695}}

(3 vols.)

|1841

|John Chetwode Eustace

|Classical Tour through Italy, 8th edition{{cite DNB|wstitle=Eustace, John Chetwode|volume=18}}

LXXIX

|Davenport

|Lives of Individuals who have Raised Themselves from Poverty to Eminence or Fortune{{cite book|title=Bent's Literary Advertiser and Register of Engravings, Works on the Fine Arts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xDJNAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA95|accessdate=29 September 2013|year=1841|publisher=Hodgson|page=95}}

LXXX

|1842

|Anonymous (William Johnson Neale)

|History of the Mutiny at Spithead and the Nore{{cite book|author=Samuel Halkett|author-link=Samuel Halkett|title=Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fRfBroP_QZ4C&pg=PA86|accessdate=30 September 2013|year=1926|publisher=Ardent Media|page=86|id=GGKEY:XNNP1DZ3NZG}}

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: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40371632

Notes

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