Edinburgh Cabinet Library

The Edinburgh Cabinet Library was a series of 38 books, mostly geographical, published from 1830 to 1844, and edited by Dionysius Lardner.

[1][2] The original price was 5 shillings for a volume; a later reissue of 30 of the volumes was at half that price.

[3] The series was published jointly by Oliver and Boyd in Edinburgh, and Simpkin & Marshall in London,[4] and in the years 1848 to 1851 was published in a new edition by Thomas Nelson & Sons.

Arctic animals, illustration from Volume 1 of the Edinburgh Cabinet Library