Portal:John Murray

Publishing company founded in London in 1768 by John Murray (1745–1793), owned by the Murray family until 2002, when it was acquired by Hodder Headline and then by Lagardère in 2004.

Publications

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Title	Author(s)	Translator	Year	Location	Notes
Popular Tales of the Germans (transcription volumes: 1, 2)	Johann Karl August Musäus	Thomas Beddoes	1791	London
Observations on the disturbances in the Madras army in 1809 (transcription project)	John Malcolm		1812	London	With William Miller
The Corsair: A Tale (transcription project)	Lord Byron		1814	London
Hebrew Melodies (transcription project)	Lord Byron		1815	London
Emma: A Novel	Jane Austen		1816	London	Three volumes (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3)
The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy (2nd Edition) (transcription project)	Felicia Hemans		1816	London	2nd edition.
Armata: A Fragment (transcription project)	Thomas Erskine		1817	London
Macbeth, and King Richard the Third (transcription project)	John Philip Kemble		1817	London
Modern Greece: A Poem (transcription project)	Felicia Hemans		1817	London
Algebra, with Arithmetic and mensuration from the Sanscrit (transcription project)	Brahmagupta	Henry Thomas Colebrooke	1817	London
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion	Jane Austen		1818	London	In four volumes (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4)
An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands (transcription project)	William Mariner and John Martin		1818	London	2nd expanded edition. 1st edition published 1817.
Translations from Camoens; and Other Poets, with Original Poetry (transcription project)	Felicia Hemans		1818	London
Mazeppa, a Poem	Lord Byron		1819	London
Stanzas to the Memory of the Late King (transcription project)	Felicia Hemans		1820	London
The Sceptic (transcription project)	Felicia Hemans		1820	London
The Vespers of Palermo (transcription project)	Felicia Hemans		1823	London
The Siege of Valencia; The Last Constantine: with Other Poems (transcription project)	Felicia Hemans		1823	London
The measure of value stated and illustrated: with an application of it to the alterations in the value of the English currency since 1790 (transcription project)	Thomas Robert Malthus		1823	London
Chinese Moral Maxims (transcription project)	John Francis Davis	John Francis Davis	1823	London	Printed in Macao
Tales and Historic Scenes (transcription project)	Felicia Hemans		1824	London
A New System of Domestic Cookery (transcription project)	A Lady		1824	London	1824 edition. 1st edition published in 1805.
The Forest Sanctuary; and Other Poems (transcription project)	Felicia Hemans		1825	London
Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia	Phillip Parker King		1826	London	Two volumes: (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
Narrative of an Official Visit to Guatemala from Mexico (transcription project)	G. A. Thompson		1829	London
Lives of British Physicians (transcription project)			1830	London
Mechanism of the Heavens (transcription project)	Pierre-Simon Laplace	Mary Somerville	1831	London
On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (transcription project)	Mary Sommerville		1834	London
The Country House (transcription project)	Alexis de Chateauneuf		1842	London	Edited by Lady Mary Fox
A charge delivered at the ordinary visitation of the archdeaconry of Chichester in July, 1843 (transcription project)	Henry Edward Manning		1843	London
A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions (transcription volumes: 1, 2)	James Clark Ross		1847	London
A Naval Biographical Dictionary (transcription project)	William Richard O'Byrne		1849	London
History of the Guillotine (transcription project)	John Wilson Croker		1853	London
A Handbook for Travellers in Spain (transcription volumes: 1, 2)	Richard Ford		1855	London	Part of Murray's Handbooks for Travellers. Third edition
London in 1856 (transcription project)	Peter Cunningham		1856	London
On the Origin of Species (transcription project)	Charles Darwin		1859	London
Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world (transcription project)	Charles Darwin		1860	London
Antique Gems (transcription project)	Charles William King		1860	London
A Popular Account of Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (transcription project)	David Livingstone		1861	London
Ancient Law (transcription project)	Henry James Sumner Maine		1861	London
On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, and on the Good Effects of Intercrossing (transcription project)	Charles Darwin		1862	London
The Book Of Common Prayer (transcription project)	Church of England		1863	London
Two years of church progress (transcription project)	A. J. B. Beresford Hope		1862	London
Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man (transcription project)	Charles Lyell		1863	London
The Rock-cut Temples of India (transcription project)	ames Fergusson		1864	London
Judging from the past and present, what are the prospects for good architecture in London? (transcription project)	Nicholas Wiseman		1864	London
Church Politics and Church Prospects (transcription project)	A. J. B. Beresford Hope		1865	London
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication (transcription volumes: 1, 2)	Charles Darwin		1868	London
The Irish church and its formularies (transcription project)	A. J. B. Beresford Hope		1870	London
The Wild Garden (transcription project)	William Robinson		1870	London
Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries; Their Age and Uses (transcription project)	James Fergusson		1872	London
The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection (transcription project)	Charles Darwin		1873	London
Worship in the Church of England (transcription project)	A. J. B. Beresford Hope		1874	London
Vaticanism: an answer to reproofs and replies (start transcription)	W. E. Gladstone		1875	London
Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel (transcription project)	Mrs John Herschel		1876	London
The formation of vegetable mould, through the action of worms (transcription project)	Charles Darwin		1881	London
The Cat: An Introduction to the Study of Backboned Animals Especially Mammals (transcription project)	St. George Jackson Mivart		1881	London
A Handbook for Travellers in Spain (transcription volumes: 1, 2)	Richard Ford		1882	London	Part of Murray's Handbooks for Travellers.
Worship and Order (transcription project)	A. J. B. Beresford Hope		1883	London
Speeches and addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888 (transcription project)	Edward VII of the United Kingdom		1889	London	Edited by James Macaulay
Female suffrage. A letter from the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone, M.P. to Samuel Smith, M.P. (transcription project)	William Ewart Gladstone		1892	London
Life of Sir William Petty 1623 - 1687 (transcription project)	Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice		1895	London
Old Deccan Days (transcription project)	Mary Frere		1898	London
A Short History of Astronomy (transcription project)	Arthur Berry		1898	London
The Works of Lord Byron	Lord Byron		1898–1905	London	In 7 volumes of Poetry and 6 volumes of Letters and Journals. Edited by Coleridge and Prothero
A Glimpse at Guatemala (transcription project)	Anne Cary Maudslay and Alfred Percival Maudslay		1899	London
Undenominationalism (transcription project)	R. C. Moberly		1902	London
Savage Island (transcription project)	Basil Home Thomson		1902	London
A Treatise upon the Law of Copyright (transcription project)	Evan James Macgillivray		1902	London
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive (transcription project)	Sir Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell		1903	London	New edition edited by William Crooke
The Pathway to Reality (transcription project)	Richard Burdon Haldane		1903	London	1st volume. 2nd volume by E. P. Dutton and Company here (transcription project)
The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East	Marco Polo	Henry Yule	1903–1920	London	In two volumes (transcription volumes: 1, 2, notes and addenda). Edited by Henri Cordier
Fountains Abbey (transcription project)	George Hodges		1904	London
Things Japanese (transcription project)	Basil Hall Chamberlain		1905	London	5th edition revised.
The Empire and the century (transcription project)	Multiple		1905	London
Bengal in 1756-57	Samuel Charles Hill		1905	London	Part of the Indian Record Series. Three volumes: (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3)
Things Indian (transcription project)	William Crooke		1906	London
What We Want (transcription project)	"a group of priests"	Alfred Leslie Lilley	1907	London	Letter from several clergymen to Pius X
Catherine of Bragança, infanta of Portugal, & queen-consort of England (transcription project)	Lillias Campbell Davidson		1908	London
On the Coromandel Coast (transcription project)	Fanny Emily Penny		1908	London
The Life Story of an Otter (transcription project)	John Coulson Tregarthen		1909	London
The Alchemy of Happiness (transcription project)	Abu Hamid al-Ghazālī	Claud Field	1910	London	Part of the The Wisdom of the East Series edited by L. Cranmer-Byng and Dr. S. A. Kapadia.
History of Indian and Eastern Architecture (transcription volumes: 1, 2)	James Fergusson		1910	London
Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century (transcription project)			1911	London	Edited by Henry Wace and William C. Piercy
The Diwan of Zeb-un-Nissa (transcription project)	Zeb-un-Nissa	Magan Lal and `Jessie Duncan Westbrook	1913	London	Part of the The Wisdom of the East Series edited by L. Cranmer-Byng and Dr. S. A. Kapadia.
The Spirit of Japanese Poetry (transcription project)	Yone Noguchi		1914	London	Part of the The Wisdom of the East Series edited by L. Cranmer-Byng and Dr. S. A. Kapadia.
The Wages of Virtue (transcription project)	Percival Christopher Wren		1916	London
The Muse in Arms (transcription project)	Multiple		1917	London	Edited by Edward Bolland Osborn
Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market (transcription project)	Walter Bagehot		1917	London	New edition with introduction by Hartley Withers. Originally written 1873. Part of The Lombard Street Library series.
The Sayings of Lao Tzŭ (transcription project)	Lao Tzŭ	Lionel Giles	1917	London	Part of the The Wisdom of the East Series edited by L. Cranmer-Byng and Dr. S. A. Kapadia]
Territory in Bird Life (transcription project)	Henry Eliot Howard		1920	London
A History of the Indian Nationalist Movement (transcription project)	Sir Verney Lovett		1920	London
Primitive Culture (transcription volumes: 1, 2)	Edward Burnett Tylor		1920	London	Sixth edition. First edition published 1871.
Mehalah: a story of the salt marshes (transcription project)	Sabine Baring-Gould		1920	London	Originally published 1880.
The Slippery Slope (transcription project)	William Amias Bailward		1920	London
The Victory at Sea (transcription project)	Rear Adm. William Sowden Sims		1920	London	In collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick
A Handbook of Indian Art (transcription project)	E. B. Havell		1920	London
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall	Anne Brontë		1920	London	Based on Thomas Hodgson's 1854 Parlour Library edition which is considered "mutilated."
The Autobiography of an Indian Princess. (transcription project)	Suniti Devi, Maharani of Cooch Behar		1921	London
The Philosophy of Humanism and of Other Subjects (transcription project)	Richard Burdon Haldane		1922	London

Periodicals

Title	Years	Location	Notes
Quarterly Review	1809–1967	London
Blackwood's Magazine	1817–1980	Edinburgh	Only published volume 3. Also published as: Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London	1831–1880	London
The Geographical Journal	1893–1906	London

Publishers marks

These are the known publishers' marks used by John Murray, along with templates for including them in works:

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  Used for The Wisdom of the East Series

Works about John Murray

• "Murray, John (publishers)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)