John Murray (Firm)

Overview

Works:	2,100 works in 4,685 publications in 1 language and 37,175 library holdings
Genres:	History Guidebooks Personal correspondence Periodicals Poetry Wood engravings Biographies Promotional materials Paranormal fiction Novels
Roles:	Publisher, isb, Other, Printer, Monitor, Editor
Classifications:	QH11, 574.9

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about John Murray (Firm)

Washington Irving and the House of Murray : Geoffrey Crayon charms the British, 1817-1856 by Washington Irving( Book )
A publisher and his friends. Memoir and correspondence of the late John Murray, with an account of the origin and progress of the house, 1768-1843 by Samuel Smiles( Book )
Travels into print : exploration, writing, and publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859 by Innes M Keighren( )
At John Murray's; records of a literary circle, 1843-1892 by George Paston( Book )
The first John Murray and the late eighteenth-century London book trade : with a checklist of his publications by William Zachs( Book )

The seven lives of John Murray : the story of a publishing dynasty, 1768-2002 by Humphrey Carpenter( Book )
John Murray III, 1808-1892, a brief memoir by John Murray( )
Dear Mr Murray : letters to a gentleman publisher by David McClay( Book )
Handbook for travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland : including the Crimea, Caucasus, Siberia, and Central Asia by John Murray (Firm)( Book )
Byron : mad, bad and dangerous to know : a poet and his publisher( Visual )
A publisher and his friends; memoir and correspondence of John Murray, with an account of the origin and progress of the house, 1768-1843 by Samuel Smiles( )
A publisher and his friends : memoir and correspondence of the late John Murray, with an account of the origin and progress of the house, 1768-1843 by Samuel Smiles( )
A Publisher and his Friends Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray, with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843. : Volume 2 by Samuel Smiles( )
Ideas that shaped the world : an introduction to the John Murray archive( Book )
John and A.H. Hallam Murray v. Walter and others by John Murray (Firm)( Book )
Handbook of London, past and present by Peter Cunningham( Book )
John Murray, 50 Albemarle Street, 1768-1930 by John Murray (Firm)( Book )
The handbook for travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont : including the Protestant valleys of the Waldenses by John Murray (Firm)( )
Description of the banquet given in honour of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel ... : on his election as lord rector of the University of Glasgow : detailing the proceedings at the election and inauguration, the addresses of various public bodies, and reports of the speeches at the dinner( )
The portable paradise : Baedeker, Murray, and the Victorian guidebook by Jonathan Keates( Book )

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Most widely held works by John Murray (Firm)

The Cornhill magazine( )

in English and held by 526 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The origin of species by means of natural selection : or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life by Charles Darwin( Book )

40 editions published between 1869 and 1901 in English and held by 440 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The publication of Darwin's The Origin of Species in 1859 marked a dramatic turning point in scientific thought. The volume had taken Darwin more than twenty years to publish, in part because he envisioned the storm of controversy it was certain to unleash. Indeed, selling out its first edition on its first day, The Origin of Species revolutionized science, philosophy, and theology. Darwin's reasoned, documented arguments carefully advance his theory of natural selection and assertion that species were not created all at once by a divine hand but started with a few simple forms that mutated and adapted over time. Whether commenting on his own ill health, discussing his experiments to test instinct in bees, or relating a conversation about a South American burrowing rodent, Darwin's monumental achievement is surprisingly personal and delightfully readable. Its ideas remain extremely profound even today, making it the most influential book in the natural sciences ever written -- a work not just important to its time, but to the history of humankind

The expression of the emotions in man and animals by Charles Darwin( Book )

4 editions published between 1872 and 1892 in English and held by 399 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Why do we bite people we feel affection towards? Why do dogs wag their tails? Or cats purr? Why do we get embarrassed, and why does embarrassment make us blush?" "These, and many other questions about the emotional life of man and animals are answered in this remarkable book. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was an immediate best-seller when it was first published in 1872 and still provides the point of departure for research into emotion and facial expression. In his study of infants and children (including a delightfully objective study of his own baby's smiles and pouts), of the insane, of painting and sculpture, of cats and dogs and monkeys, and of the ways that people in different cultures express their feelings, Darwin's insights have not been improved upon by modern science." "This definitive edition contains a substantial new Introduction and Afterword by Paul Ekman. Ekman also provides commentaries that use the latest scientific knowledge to elaborate, support and occasionally challenge Darwin's insights."--Jacket

A handbook of Rome and its environs by John Murray (Firm)( Book )

41 editions published between 1858 and 2011 in English and held by 385 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A handbook for travellers in Spain by Richard Ford( Book )

52 editions published between 1844 and 1904 in English and held by 329 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Jane Welsh Carlyle : letters to her family, 1839-1863 by Jane Welsh Carlyle( Book )

1 edition published in 1924 in English and held by 309 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin( Book )

19 editions published between 1845 and 1897 in English and held by 300 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This is Charles Darwin's chronicle of his five-year journey, beginning in 1831, around the world as a naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagle

A handbook for travellers on the continent : being a guide to Holland, Belgium, Prussia, northern Germany, and the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland : with map and plans by John Murray (Firm)( Book )

51 editions published between 1838 and 1875 in English and held by 298 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A handbook for travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont by John Murray (Firm)( Book )

52 editions published between 1838 and 1871 in English and held by 256 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An 1844 impression of a French edition which includes Murray's London imprint. According to Lister's 'Bibliography of Murray's handbooks for travellers ... ' it is not possible to say whether this issue (or the 843 issue) were pirated or not

Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the progress and prospects of society by Robert Southey( Book )

2 editions published between 1829 and 1831 in English and held by 255 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"His Colloquies of Society (1829) is a calm exposition of his mature social and political convictions: rejection of the Catholic claims and of constitutional reform, support for high taxation to redistribute wealth, and so on. The conversations are conducted with the ghost of Sir Thomas More, whose Utopia was a remote ancestor of pantisocracy. They are set in the neighbourhood of Keswick, and the beauty of the countryside tempers the generally gloomy tone of the conversation, as does the quiet of his splendid library" -ODNB

Discoveries in the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon : with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the desert : being the result of a second expedition undertaken for the trustees of the British Museum by Austen Henry Layard( Book )

3 editions published in 1853 in English and held by 248 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Samantha Mather survived one curse, and now she's having recurring dreams about the Titanic, and walking the deck with first-class passengers like her aunt and uncle. Then missives from the Titanic begin finding their way to her, along with haunting visions of people who went down with the ship. Her friends in the Descendants are determined to help Sam. First they must unravel who is behind the spell that is drawing her ever further into the dream ship-- and closer to sharing the same grim fate as its ghostly passengers

A hand-book for travellers in Spain : and readers at home : describing the country and cities, the natives and their manners, the antiquities, religion, legends, fine arts, literature, sports, and gastronomy : with notices on Spanish history by Richard Ford( )

14 editions published in 1845 in English and held by 240 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A handbook for travellers in India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon by John Murray (Firm)( Book )

18 editions published between 1919 and 1968 in English and held by 232 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Living poets( Book )

1 edition published in 1974 in English and held by 229 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe : with his letters and journals, and his life by George Crabbe( Book )

6 editions published in 1834 in English and held by 229 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Handbook for travellers in Ireland by John Murray (Firm)( Book )

36 editions published between 1866 and 1910 in English and held by 225 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Elizabeth Barrett Browning : letters to her sister, 1846-1859 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning( Book )

1 edition published in 1929 in English and held by 223 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The tragedy of Lord Kitchener by Reginald Baliol Brett Esher( Book )

1 edition published in 1921 in English and held by 219 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A sketch of the personality and trials of Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener particularly during World War I

Handbook for travellers in Scotland by John Murray (Firm)( Book )

40 editions published between 1867 and 1913 in English and held by 215 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Handbook for travellers in Southern Germany : being a guide to Würtemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Styria, &c., the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and the Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea by John Murray (Firm)( Book )

42 editions published between 1837 and 1885 in English and held by 207 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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