Constable's Miscellany

[1] The full series title was Constable's Miscellany of Original and Selected Publications, in the Various Departments of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

[2] The entire list was later advertised by the London firm of Whittaker & Co.[3][4] There were 80 volumes in all, the first appearing in 1826 and the last in 1835.

[5] Projected before the Panic of 1825, the Miscellany was dedicated to George IV of the United Kingdom, a privilege gained for Constable by Walter Scott.

The initial plans were more ambitious; Constable himself became bankrupt in 1827, and this final project proceeded under constraints.

[2] As a series of less expensive contemporary non-fiction books for a popular audience, by a commercial publisher, it was the precedent for Murray's Family Library, which it anticipated by two years.