Original John Murray book prospectuses, featuring upcoming titles by authors with surnames beginning 'H'., 1895-1920
Scope and Contents
File contains original print prospectuses for publications by the following authors:
Hall, A.D. ("The Soil"; "Fertilisers and Manures"; "A Pilgrimage of British Farming"; "The Book of the Rothamsted Experiments", undated);
Hall, T.D. ("Translation at Sight; or Aids to Facility and Certainty in the Translation of Latin", 1895);
Hallam, H. ("Constitutional History of England", undated);
Halliburton, W.D. ("Handbook of Physiology", 3 copies, undated);
Haldane, E.S. ("The British Nurse in Peace & War", undated);
Haldane, Viscount ("The Reign of Relativity", undated);
Hamilton, Lord E. ("The Irish Rebellion of 1641", undated);
Hamilton, Dr. L. ("A Nurse’s Bequest", 2 copies, undated);
Handley, W.Sampson ("Cancer of the Breast, and its Operative Treatment", undated);
Hardwich, Reverend J.M. ("Periods of Old Testament History", undated);
Harker, L. Allen ("Mr. Wycherly’s Wards"; "Miss Esperance and Mr. Wycherley"; "A Romance of the Nursery"; "Master and Maid"; "The Ffolliots of Redmarley", and various other titles, undated);
Harris, Lord ("A Few Short Runs", undated);
Harris, C. ("Creeds or No Creeds?: A Critical Examination of the Basis of Modernism", undated);
"Hart’s Annual Army List: Militia List, and Yeomanry Cavalry List for 1902", c.1902;
Hastings, S. ("First Aid for the Trenches", undated);
Hatzfeldt, P. ("The Hatzfeldt Letters: Letters of Count Paul Hatzfeldt to his Wife, written from the Headquarters of the King of Prussia, 1870-1871", 1905);
Havell, E.B. ("Indian Sculpture and Painting", 2 copies; "The Himalayas in Indian Art", 2 copies; "The Ideals of Indian Art"; "A Handbook of Indian Art"; "Indian Architecture: Its Psychology, Structure, and History", undated);
Hawley, F.L. ("Drawings and Diagrams for the Woodwork Class", annotated, undated);
Hawtrey, V. ("Suzanne"; "Rodwell", undated);
Hay-Newton, F. ("Somewhere in Scotland", undated);
Hayes, F.C. ("A Handy Book of Horticulture", undated);
Headlam, Right Reverend A.C. ("St. Paul and Christianity", 3 copies; "The Church of England", undated);
Hearsey, J.E.N. ("London and the Great Fire", undated);
Henderson, Colonel D. ("The Art of Reconnaissance", undated);
Hensley Henson, H. (editor) ("Church Problems: A View of Modern Anglicanism", 1900);
Henslow, Reverend Professor G. ("The Heredity of Acquired Characters in Plants", undated);
Hertslet, Sir E. ("Recollections of the Old Foreign Office", 1901);
Heuzé, P. ("Do the Dead Live?: An Inquiry into the Present State of Psychical Research", undated);
Hine, J.E. ("Days Gone By: Being Some Account of Past Years Chiefly in Central Africa", c.1920);
Hoare, H.W. ("Our English Bible: The Story of its Origin and Growth"; "The Evolution of the English Bible: Being an Historical Sketch of the Successive Versions", undated);
Hobbes, J.O. ("The Life of John Oliver Hobbes" (also known as Pearl Mary Craigie), 2 copies, undated);
Bevan, A. Beckford, and Reverend H.B. Wolryche Whitmore, ("A Sailor of King George: Being a History of the Adventures of Captain F.W. Hoffman", undated);
Holland, B. ("The Lancashire Hollands", undated);
Paget, S. (editor) ("Henry Scott Holland: Memoir and Letters", undated; "Poultry Farming: Some Facts and Some Conclusions", c.1900);
Hooker, W.H. ("The Handicap of British Trade", 2 copies; "Handicapping the British Exporter", undated);
Horan, Reverend F.S. ("A Call to Seaman", undated);
Horsley, J.C. ("Reminiscences of a Royal Academician", undated);
Howard, Major-General Sir F. ("Reminiscences, 1848-1890", undated);
Howard, H. Eliot ("Territory in Bird Life", c.1920);
Housley, S.J. ("Comfort in Small Craft: A Practical Handbook of Sailing and Cookery", 1911);
Hubbard, L. ("A Woman’s Way Through Unknown Labrador", c.1900);
Huish, M.B. ("Greek Terra-Cotta Statuettes", 1900);
Petrach, ("The Triumphs", translated by Henry Boyd, and published by John Murray as part of the "Humanistic Volumes", 3 copies, undated).
Hurd, A. ("The Merchant Navy, Vol. I."; "German Sea-Power", undated);
Hutchinson, H.G. ("The Fortnightly Club"; "The Greatest Story in the World"; "The New Forest", 2 copies, undated);
Hutchinson, G.T. ("From the Cape to the Zambesi", undated);
Huxley, L. ("The Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker", undated);
Hyne, C.J. Cutliffe ("The Trials of McTurk"; "The Adventures of Commander McTurk", undated);
Murray, J. ("The Origin & History of Murray's Handbooks for Travellers", undated);
Murray's Handbooks ("English and Foreign with Specimen Maps and Plan", 1899);
Grundy, G.B. (editor) ("Murray's Handy Classical Maps", undated);
Prospectus for two titles on the "Home Rule Question", undated;
Prospectuses for "Mr. Murray's List of Books on Horticulture, Agriculture, and Country Lore", 3 copies, undated;
Original file index for 'H' is also present.
Dates
- Creation: 1895-1920
Creator
- John Murray (publishers, London) (Organization)
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Conditions Governing Use
Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.
Extent
1 Folders
Language of Materials
English
Genre / Form
Repository Details
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