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The following table lists the volumes of the Family Library as published by John Murray between March 1829 and September 1834 and gives also the volumes in the Dramatic Series. The dates of publication are supplied from the Murray ledgers and are confirmed by advertisements in the volumes themselves, by reviews, and by Robert Pettie and Quintin Waddington, eds., The English Catalogue of Books, 1801-1836 (1914). The authors are identified from the title pages, Samuel Halkett and John Laing, eds., Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature (1926-62), The English Catalogue and Samuel Smiles, A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray (1891). Brackets around an author's name indicate anonymous publication. All the Family Library authors are included in the DNB except Washington Irving (see the DAB), John Barrow, S. Dunham Whitehead, and Charles Edward Dodd. For Barrow, see Frederick Boase, Modern English Biography (1892-1921).

Volume	Date	Author	Title (Number of copies printed/Total sold and distributed as complimentary copies)
The Family Library
1	30 March 1829	[J. G. Lockhart]	The History of Napoleon Buonaparte (27,500/20,241)
2	14 May 1829		vol. II of Lockhart's Napoleon (27,500/20,241)

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3	c. 12 June 1829	John Williams	The Life and Actions of Alexander the Great (15,000/11,746)
4	July 1829	Allan Cunningham	The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (14,000/11,083)
5	4 August 1829	[H. H. Milman]	The History of the Jews (20,000/12,823)
6	12 September 1829		vol. II of Milman's History (20,190/12,659)
7	October 1829	several hands[a]	The Natural History of Insects (17,471/9,331)
8	1 December 1829	[S. Dunham Whitehead]	The Court and Camp of Buonaparte (20,000/13,481)
9	29 December 1829		vol. III of Milman's History— see No. 5 above (20,090/12,298)
10	January 1830		vol. II of Cunningham's Lives— see No. 4 above (14,240/10,573)
11	27 February 1830	Washington Irving	The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (abridged by Irving) (15,000/11,606)
12	c. 1 April 1830	Robert Southey	The Life of Nelson (21,000/15,167)
13	June 1830		vol. III of Cunningham's Lives—see No. 4 above (14,320/9,333)
14	12 July 1830	[William Macmichael][b]	Lives of British Physicians (10,816/8,394)

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Volume	Date	Author	Title (Number of copies printed/Total sold and distributed as complimentary copies)
15	1 September 1830	G. R. Gleig	The History of the British Empire in India (10,374/7,786)
16	18 September 1830	Sir Walter Scott	Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Addressed to J. G. Lockhart (20,385/13,592)
17	December 1830	F. B. Head	The Life of Bruce, the African Traveller (10,035/9,562)
18	27 December 1830	Washington Irving	Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus (15,724/7,804)
19	26 January 1831		vol. IV of Cunningham's Lives—see No. 4 above (14,410/8,189)
20	20 February 1831	[Edward Smedley]	Sketches from Venetian History (10,146/7,107)
21	14 April 1831	Francis Palgrave	History of England, Anglo-Saxo Period (15,151/6,581)
22	18 May 1831	Patrick Fraser Tytler	Lives of Scottish Worthies (10,000/5,476)
23	8 August 1831	[John Barrow]	A Family Tour Through South Holland; Up the Rhine; and Across the Netherlands, to Ostend (7,000/6,482)
24	1 September 1831	David Brewster	The Life of Sir Isaac Newton (12,500/6,669)
25	31 September 1831	[Sir John Barrow]	The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty (7,000/7,000)
26	19 December 1831	John Blunt	Sketch of the Reformation in England (8,000/6,541)
27	February 1832		vol. V of Cunningham's Lives—see No. 4 above,lb> (6,000/5,782)
28 & 29 & 30 }	28 March 1832	Richard and John Lander[c]	Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Course and Termination of the Niger (8,750 each/7,887 each)
31	15 June 1832	[Charles Edward Dodd]	The Trials of Charles the First and of Some of the Regicides (5,350/4,748)

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Volume	Date	Author	Title (Number of copies printed/Total sold and distributed as complimentary copies)
32	26 June 1832		vol. II of Smedley's History— see No. 20 above (6,000/4,948)
33	27 July 1832	Sir David Brewster	Letters on Natural Magic Addressed to Sir Walter Scott, (11,000/8,997)
34	August 1832		vol. II of Tytler's Lives—see No. 22 above (5,200/4,359)
35	24 October 1832	[Sir John Barrow] A Memoir of the Life of Peter the Great (5,127/4,763)
36	26 November 1832	Henry Nelson Coleridge	Six Months in the West Indies in 1825 (6,295/4,232)
37	March 1833		vol. III of Tytler's Lives—see No. 22 above (5,159/3,747)
38	April 1833		vol. VI of Cunningham's Lives—see No. 4 above (7,043/4,386)
39 & 40}	January 1834	Washington Irving	The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon (5,640 each/3,556 each)
41 & 42 }	April 1834	Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee	Universal History, From The Creation of the World to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century, vols. I & II (3,071 each/3,000 each)
43 & 44 }	5 June 1834		vols. III & IV of Tytler's Universal History (3,050 each/2,847 each)
45 & 46 }	16 July 1834		vols. V & VI of Tytler's Universal History (3,050 each/2,793 each)
47	22 September 1834	T. Crofton Croker	Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (5,000/3,398)

The Dramatic Series

1	23 April 1830		The Plays of Philip Massinger, vol. I (5,157/3,180)
2	October 1830		vol. II of the Massinger (5,205/2,162)
3	March 1831		vol. III of the Massinger (5,047/1,640)
4	3 May 1831	[Rev. E. Johnson, ed.]	Popular English Specimens of the Great Dramatic Poets . . . Æschylus (3,043/1,771)

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Volume	Date	Author	Title (Number of copies printed/Total sold and distributed as complimentary copies)
5 & 6 }	May 1831	[Mr. Mitchell, ed.][d]	The Dramatic Works of John Ford: with an Introduction, Notes Critical and Explanatory (5,027 each/1,122 each)

The printing and sales of the Family Library and Dramatic Series can be summarized numerically as follows:

	Family Library	Dramatic Series	Total
Copies sold	360,886	10,460	371,346
Complimentary copies	6,271	481	6,752
Copies remaindered from Murray	146,013	17,520	163,533
from agents	2,621	56	2,677
Adjustment[e]	107	-11	96
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Total printed	515,898	28,506	544,404