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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.[1][2]

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This listing of 44 titles of the Library, two of those coming in 2 vols., was published in 1876.[3]

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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.[10] Melville's works Typee and Omoo were at first issued separately.[11] Murray required that Typee appear as Four Months among the Natives of the Marquesas.[12]

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  1. [1]
    Innes M. Keighren; Charles W. J. Withers; Bill Bell (6 May 2015). Travels Into Print: Exploration, Writing, and Publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859. University of Chicago Press. p. 204. ISBN 978-0-226-42953-3.
  2. [2]
    Robert L. Gale (1995). A Herman Melville Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 312. ISBN 978-0-313-29011-4.
  3. [3]
    s:Page:Memoir and correspondence of Caroline Herschel (1876).djvu/398
  4. [4]
    "A Popular Account of the Manners and Customs of India : Charles Acland : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive". Internet Archive. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
  5. [5]
    H. Manners Sutton (1851). The Lexington Papers. John Murray. pp. 375–6.
  6. [6]
    Julia Charlotte Maitland (1846). Letters from Madras: During the Years 1836-1839. J. Murray. p. 82.
  7. [7]
    Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake; Julie Sheldon (2009). The Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. Liverpool University Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-1-84631-194-9.
  8. [8]
    Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake (1842). Letters from the Shores of the Baltic. J. Murray.
  9. [9]
    Caroline Shaw (2015). Britannia's Embrace: Modern Humanitarianism and the Imperial Origins of Refugee Relief. Oxford University Press. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-19-020098-5.
  10. [10]
    Sir John Barrow (1846). 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. Harper & Brothers. p. 15.
  11. [11]
    Aileen Fyfe (17 July 2004). Science and Salvation: Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain. University of Chicago Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-0-226-27648-9.
  12. [12]
    Royal A. Gettmann (10 June 2010). A Victorian Publisher: A Study of the Bentley Papers. Cambridge University Press. pp. 164–. ISBN 978-0-521-15320-1.
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