{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Use British English|date=September 2022}} {{italic title}} '''''Murray's Family Library''''' was a series of non-fiction works published from 1829 to 1834, by John Murray II of the John Murray publishing house, in 51 volumes. The series editor was John Gibson Lockhart, who also wrote the first book, a biography of Napoleon.<ref name="JGL">{{cite DNB|wstitle=Lockhart, John Gibson|volume=34}}</ref> The books were priced at five shillings;<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Feltes1989">{{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}}</ref>

==Original ''Library''== {|border=1 !Volume !Year !Author !Title |- |I (2 vols.) |1829<ref>Bennett, p. 162.</ref> |John Gibson Lockhart<ref name="JGL"/> |''The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte''<ref name="M1830">{{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]}}</ref> |- |III |1829<ref name="B163">Bennett, p. 163.</ref> |John Williams |''The Life and Actions of Alexander the Great''<ref name="M1830"/><ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Williams, John (1792-1858)|volume=61}}</ref> |- |IV, X, XIII, XIX, XXVII, XXXVIII |1829–31 |Allan Cunningham<ref>{{Cite ODNB|id=6918|title=Cunningham, Allan|first=Hamish|last=Whyte}}</ref> |''Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors and Architects''<ref name="M1830"/><ref name="CB1839">{{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}}</ref> |- |V, VI and IX |Vol. V August 1829<ref name="B163"/> |Henry Hart Milman<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Milman, Henry Hart|volume=38}}</ref> |''The History of the Jews''<ref name="M1830"/> |- |VII, LI |1829<ref name="B163"/> |Anonymous (a number of authors;<ref name="B163"/> Robert Ferguson)<ref name="CB1839"/><ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Ferguson, Robert (1799-1865)|volume=18}}</ref> |''The Natural History of Insects''<ref name="M1830"/> |- |VIII |1829 |Anonymous (S. Dunham Whitehead)<ref name="B163"/> |''The Court and Camp of Buonaparte''<ref name="M1830"/> |- |XI |1830<ref name="B163"/> |Washington Irving |''The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus'' (abridged)<ref name="M1830"/> |- |XII |1830<ref name="B163"/> |Robert Southey |''The Life of Nelson'', third edition<ref name="M1830"/> |- |XIV |1830<ref name="B163"/> |Anonymous (William Macmichael and others; memoir of Caleb Hillier Parry by his son W. C. Parry)<ref name="B163"/><ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Parry, Caleb Hillier|volume=43}}</ref> |''Lives of Eminent British Physicians''<ref name="M1830"/> |- |XV, XLVIII, XLIX, L |1830<ref name="B164">Bennett, p. 164.</ref> |George Robert Gleig |''The History of British India''<ref name="M1830"/><ref name="CB1839"/> |- |XVI |1830<ref name="B164"/> |Walter Scott |''Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft''<ref name="H1831">{{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}}</ref> |- |XVII |1830<ref name="B164"/> |Francis Bond Head |''Life of Bruce the African Traveller''<ref name="H1831"/> |- |XVIII |1830<ref name="B164"/> |Irving |''Companions of Columbus''<ref name="CB1839"/> |- |XX, XXXII |Vol. XX 1831<ref name="B164"/> |Anonymous, (Edward Smedley)<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Smedley, Edward|volume=52}}</ref> |''Sketches from Venetian History''<ref name="CB1839"/><ref>{{cite book|title=Sketches from Venetian history|url=https://archive.org/details/sketchesfromvene01smed|accessdate=28 September 2013|year=1831|publisher=John Murray}}</ref> |- |XXI |1831<ref name="B164"/> |Francis Palgrave |''History of England''<ref name="CB1839"/> |- |XXII, XXXIV, XXXVII |Vol. XXII 1831 |Patrick Fraser Tytler |''Lives of Scottish Worthies''<ref name="CB1839"/> |- |XXIII |1831 |Anonymous (John Barrow)<ref name="B164"/> |''Family Tour through South Holland''<ref name="CB1839"/> |- |XXIV |1831<ref name="B164"/> |David Brewster |''Life of Sir Isaac Newton''<ref name="CB1839"/> |- |XXV |1831<ref name="B164"/> |Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet |''The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty''<ref name="CB1839"/> |- |XXVI (2 vols.) |Vol. XXVI December 1831<ref name="B164"/> |John James Blunt |''Reformation in England''<ref name="CB1839"/><ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Blunt, John James|volume=5}}</ref> |- |XXVIII (3 vols.) |1832<ref name="B164"/> |John Lander and Richard Lander, editor Alexander Bridport Becher<ref name="B164"/> |''Adventures in the Niger''<ref name="CB1839"/> |- |XXXI |1832<ref name="B164"/> |Anonymous (Charles Edward Dodd)<ref name="B164"/> |''The Trials of Charles I, and of some of the Regicides''<ref>{{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}}</ref> |- |XXXIII |1832<ref name="B165">Bennett, p. 165.</ref> |Brewster |''Letters on Natural Magic''<ref name="CB1839"/> |- |XXXV |1832<ref name="B165"/> |Sir John Barrow<ref name="B165"/> |''Life of Peter the Great''<ref name="CB1839"/> |- |XXXVI |1832<ref name="B165"/> |Henry Nelson Coleridge |''Six Months in the West Indies''<ref name="CB1839"/> |- |XXXIX (2 vols.) |1834<ref name="B165"/> |Irving<ref name="B165"/> |''Sketch Book''<ref name="CB1839"/> |- |XLI (6 vols.) |1834<ref name="B165"/> |Alexander Fraser Tytler<ref name="B165"/> |''Universal History''<ref name="CB1839"/> |- |XLVII |22 September 1834.<ref name="B165"/> |Crofton Croker<ref name="B165"/> |''Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland'', 2nd edition illustrated by Daniel Maclise<ref name="CB1839"/><ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Maclise, Daniel|volume=35}}</ref> |}

==Subsequent additions== In 1834 Murray sold out to Thomas Tegg.<ref>{{Cite ODNB|id=27102|title=Tegg, Thomas|first1=James J.|last1=Barnes|first2=Patience P.|last2=Barnes}}</ref> Further volumes were added to the ''Library'', under Tegg's management. There was a total of 80 volumes, by 1847.<ref name="Hathi">{{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}}</ref>

{|border=1 !Volume !Year !Author !Title |- |LII | |Daniel Defoe |''History of the Plague''<ref name="CB1839"/> Notes by E. W. Brayley<ref name="Hathi"/> |- |LIII (2 vols.) | |Cyrus R. Edmonds |''Life and Times of George Washington''<ref name="CB1839"/> |- |LV | |Irving |''Knickerbocker's History of New York''<ref name="CB1839"/><ref name="Hathi"/> |- |LVI (3 vols.) | |John Wesley |''A Compendium of Natural Philosophy''<ref name="CB1839"/> |- |LIX (2 vols.) | |Philippe-Paul de Ségur |''Bonaparte's Campaigns in Russia''<ref name="CB1839"/> |- |LXI |1837 |Richard Alfred Davenport<ref name="DNBRAD">{{cite DNB|wstitle=Davenport, Richard Alfred|volume=14}}</ref> |''Life of Ali Pasha, of Tepelini''<ref name="CB1839"/> |- |LXII | |Charles Macfarlane<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Macfarlane, Charles|volume=35}}</ref> |''Lives and Exploits of Banditti and Robbers''<ref name="CB1839"/> |- |LXIII | |Davenport<ref name="DNBRAD"/> |''Sketches of Imposture, Decepture and Credulity''<ref name="CB1839"/> |- |LXIV |1838 |Davenport<ref name="DNBRAD"/> |''History of the Bastile''<ref name="CB1839"/> |- |LXV | |James Francis Hollings |''Life of Gustavus Adolphus''<ref name="CB1839"/> |- |LXVI | |Richard Thomson<ref name="Hathi"/> |''Chronicles of London Bridge''<ref name="CB1839"/> |- |LXVII | |Charles Bucke |''Life of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough''<ref name="CB1839"/> |- |LXVII |1839 |Thomas Roscoe |''The Life and Writings of Miguel de Cervantes'' (1839), based on Martín Fernández de Navarrete.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> |- |LXIX |1839 |Hollings |''Cicero's Life''<ref name="Hathi"/><ref>{{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}}</ref> |- |LXX (2 vols.) |1840 |Bucke |''Ruins of Ancient Cities''<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> |- |LXXII |1840 |William Edmonstoune Aytoun |''Life and Times of Richard I''<ref name="Hathi"/><ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Aytoun, William Edmonstoune|volume=2}}</ref><ref>{{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–}}</ref> |- |LXXIII |1840 |Samuel Green |''Life of Mahomet''<ref name="Hathi"/><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> |- |LXXIV (2 vols.) | |Davenport |''Narrative of Perils and Sufferings''<ref name="Hathi"/><ref>{{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}}</ref> |- |(3 vols.) |1841 |John Chetwode Eustace |''Classical Tour through Italy'', 8th edition<ref name="Hathi"/><ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Eustace, John Chetwode|volume=18}}</ref> |- |LXXIX | |Davenport |''Lives of Individuals who have Raised Themselves from Poverty to Eminence or Fortune''<ref>{{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}}</ref> |- |LXXX |1842 |Anonymous (William Johnson Neale) |''History of the Mutiny at Spithead and the Nore''<ref>{{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}}</ref> |}

==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.&nbsp;139–166. Published by: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40371632

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