Original John Murray book prospectuses, featuring upcoming titles by authors with surnames beginning 'C'., 1900-1918; 1966
Scope and Contents
File contains original print prospectuses for publications by the following authors:
Cable, B. ("Air Men O’War", undated);
Caillard, E.M. ("Individual Immortality", 1903);
Calvert, W.J.R. ("Physics: Volume 1", undated);
Cambray, P.G. ("Irish Affairs & The Home Rule Question", undated);
Campbell, Rev. L. ("Sophocles: The Seven Plays in English Verse"; "Plato’s Republic", undated);
Candler, E. ("The Sepoy", undated);
Bagot, Capt. J. ("The Correspondence of George Canning and Some Intimate Friends", undated);
Canton, W. ("The Centenary History of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1804-1854", 1903);
Carlisle Taylor, C. ("The Life of Admiral Mahan", undated);
Huxley, L. ("Jane Welsh Carlyle: Letters to her Family 1839-1863", undated);
Carmichael, M. ("In Tuscany", undated);
Carnegie, W.H. ("Personal Religion and Politics", undated);
Ludwig, G. ("Life and Works of Vittorio Carpaccio", undated);
Carpenter, W.B. ("A Popular History of the Church of England, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day", 1900);
Cartwright, J. ("The Journals of Lady Knightley of Fawsley"; "The Pilgrim’s Way"; "Isabella D’Este, Marchioness of Mantua, 1474-1539", 1903);
Castle, A. & E. ("Diamond Cut Paste", undated);
Cave, Viscountess ("Memories of Old Richmond", undated);
Cecil, Hon. E. ("A History of Gardening in England", 2 copies, undated);
Chamberlin, T.C and Salisbury, R.D. ("Geology: Geological Processes and their Results", undated; "Geology: Earth History", undated);
Chambers, R.W. ("The Tracer of Lost Persons", undated);
Chance, J.F. ("The Alliance of Hanover", undated);
Charles, R. ("Our Seven Homes", undated);
Chaytor, H.J. ("A Companion to French Verse, with Poems for Recitation", undated);
Chéradame, A. ("The Pan-German Plot Unmasked", 4 copies, undated);
Childers, Lieutenant-Colonel S. ("The Life and Correspondence of the Right Honorable Hugh C.E. Childers", 2 copies, 1901);
McLaren, Rev. W.D. ("Christian Apologetics", 1903);
Christian, G. ("Tomorrow’s Countryside: The Road to the Seventies", 1966);
Claridge, W.W. ("A History of the Gold Coast and Ashanti", undated);
Clarke, J.L. ("The Eternal Saviour-Judge", undated);
Vetch, Col. R.H. ("Life of Lieutenant-General the Hon. Sir Andrew Clarke", 2 copies, undated);
Clarke, Sir E. ("The Story of My Life", undated; "The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond"", 1907);
Clarke, G.H. ("Intermediate French Grammar with Outlines of Historical Accidence", undated);
Clayden, A.W. ("Cloud Studies", undated);
Cohu, Rev. J.R. ("The Bible and Modern Thought", undated);
Collins, W. ("Hours of Insight and Other Sermons", undated);
Colquhoun, A.R. ("The Africander Land", 1906);
Coltman-Rogers, C. ("Conifers and their Characteristics", undated);
Colvin, I.D. ("The Safety of the Nation", undated);
Conway, Sir M. ("The Van Eycks and their Followers", undated);
Cook, Sir T. ("The Mark of the Beast", undated);
Cook, T.A. ("Kaiser, Krupp and Kultur", undated);
Cooke, J. ("Elementary Geography for Irish Schools", 10 copies, undated);
Cooke, C.K. ("A Memoir of her Royal Highness Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck", 3 copies, undated);
Cope Cornford, L. ("Essay-writing for Schools", 1914);
Copplestone, B. ("Secret of the Navy", 1918; and other titles);
Cordier, H. ("Ser Marco Polo", undated);
Cornish, F. Warre ("A Concise Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities", undated; "The Public School Speaker", undated);
Craig, R. ("O People", title card only, undated);
Cranmer-Byng, L. ("Salma: A Play in Three Acts", undated);
Maxwell, H. ("The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Diaries and Correspondence of Thomas Creevey", undated);
Cripps, W.J. ("Old English Plate. Ecclesiastical, Decorative and Domestic: Its Makers and Marks", undated);
Croft, Brigadier-General H. Page ("The Path of Empire", 1912; "Twenty-Two Months under Fire", undated);
Croft, Lieutenant-Colonel W.D. ("Three Years with the 9th (Scottish) Division", undated);
Crowe, J.A. and Cavalcaselle, G.B. ("A History of Painting in Italy", undated);
Cundall, H.M. ("A History of British Watercolour Painting", 3 copies, undated);
Cunningham, Lieutenant-Colonel D.D. ("Some Indian Friends and Acquaintances", 1903);
Verney, M.M. ("Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham", undated);
Cunningham, W. ("Efficiency in the Church of England", 2 copies, undated; "Christianity and Economic Sense", undated);
Cust, H. ("Gentlemen Errant", undated);
Cust, R.H. Hobart ("Giovanni Antonio Bazzi: The Man and the Painter, 1477-1549", undated);
Cust, L ("Notes on the Authentic Portraits of Mary Queen of Scots", 1903);
Notices for the Classical Journals Board, undated;
Notices for "Co-operation with America in Classical Study", undated;
Prospectus for "Murray's Cyclist’s Road-Book", 1897.
Prospectuses for "Murray's Children’s Books"; undated;
Prospectus for "Mr. Murray's New Books on South Africa and the Empire", 1906;
Prospectus for "The Continental Legal History Series";
Prospectus for E. Thornton Cook's historical romances, undated;
Assorted authors ("The Work of the Church in London", undated);
File also contains the original typescript file index.
Dates
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1900-1918; 1966
Creator
- John Murray (publishers, London) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
1 Folders
Language of Materials
English
Genre / Form
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