The Home and Colonial Library was a series of works published in London from 1843 to 1849, comprising 49 titles, by John Murray III.
He founded it, as a series of cheap reprints, original works and translations, slanted towards travel literature in the broad sense, in the year of death of his father, John Murray II.
Washington Irving's Bracebridge Hall, Traveller's Tales and Oliver Goldsmith were included.
[10] Melville's works Typee and Omoo were at first issued separately.
[11] Murray required that Typee appear as Four Months among the Natives of the Marquesas.