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'''''Murray's Family Library''''' was a series of non-fiction works published from 1829 to 1834, by [John Murray II](/source/John_Murray_(publisher%2C_born_1778)) of the [John Murray](/source/John_Murray_(publishing_house)) publishing house, in 51 volumes. The series editor was [John Gibson Lockhart](/source/John_Gibson_Lockhart), who also wrote the first book, a [biography](/source/biography) of [Napoleon](/source/Napoleon).<ref name="JGL">{{cite DNB|wstitle=Lockhart, John Gibson|volume=34}}</ref> The books were priced at five [shilling](/source/shilling)s;<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](/source/University_of_North_Carolina_Press)|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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/John_Williams_(19th_century_Archdeacon_of_Cardigan))
|''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](/source/Allan_Cunningham_(author))<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](/source/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](/source/Robert_Ferguson_(physician)))<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](/source/Washington_Irving)
|''The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus'' (abridged)<ref name="M1830"/>
|-
|XII
|1830<ref name="B163"/>
|[Robert Southey](/source/Robert_Southey)
|''The Life of Nelson'', third edition<ref name="M1830"/>
|-
|XIV
|1830<ref name="B163"/>
|Anonymous ([William Macmichael](/source/William_Macmichael) and others; memoir of [Caleb Hillier Parry](/source/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](/source/George_Robert_Gleig)
|''The History of British India''<ref name="M1830"/><ref name="CB1839"/>
|-
|XVI
|1830<ref name="B164"/>
|[Walter Scott](/source/Walter_Scott)
|''[Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Francis_Palgrave)
|''History of England''<ref name="CB1839"/>
|-
|XXII, XXXIV, XXXVII
|Vol. XXII 1831 
|[Patrick Fraser Tytler](/source/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](/source/David_Brewster)
|''Life of Sir Isaac Newton''<ref name="CB1839"/>
|-
|XXV
|1831<ref name="B164"/>
|[Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet](/source/Sir_John_Barrow%2C_1st_Baronet)
|''[The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty](/source/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](/source/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](/source/John_Lander_(explorer)) and [Richard Lander](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Alexander_Fraser_Tytler)<ref name="B165"/>
|''Universal History''<ref name="CB1839"/>
|-
|XLVII
|22 September 1834.<ref name="B165"/>
|[Crofton Croker](/source/Crofton_Croker)<ref name="B165"/>
|''Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland'', 2nd edition illustrated by [Daniel Maclise](/source/Daniel_Maclise)<ref name="CB1839"/><ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Maclise, Daniel|volume=35}}</ref>
|}

==Subsequent additions==
In 1834 Murray sold out to [Thomas Tegg](/source/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](/source/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](/source/John_Wesley)
|''A Compendium of Natural Philosophy''<ref name="CB1839"/>
|-
|LIX (2 vols.)
|
|[Philippe-Paul de Ségur](/source/Philippe-Paul_de_S%C3%A9gur)
|''Bonaparte's Campaigns in Russia''<ref name="CB1839"/>
|-
|LXI
|1837
|[Richard Alfred Davenport](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Richard_Thomson_(antiquarian))<ref name="Hathi"/>
|''Chronicles of London Bridge''<ref name="CB1839"/>
|-
|LXVII
|
|[Charles Bucke](/source/Charles_Bucke)
|''Life of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough''<ref name="CB1839"/>
|-
|LXVII
|1839
|[Thomas Roscoe](/source/Thomas_Roscoe)
|''The Life and Writings of Miguel de Cervantes'' (1839), based on [Martín Fernández de Navarrete](/source/Mart%C3%ADn_Fern%C3%A1ndez_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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Bibliographical_Society_of_the_University_of_Virginia). Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40371632

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