The Englishman's Library

The Englishman's Library was an English book series of the 1840s, a venture of the publisher James Burns.

[2] It was started by William Gresley and Edward Churton, with propagandistic aims; the works are still a source for the "condition of England" debate of the time.

[4] Those behind the series were younger High Church men who wished to imitate some of the success of the Tracts for the Times.

[5] Paget as editor started a children's book collection, The Juvenile Englishman's Library, in 1844.

It was inspired in part by the success of Edgar Taylor's English translations of Grimm's Fairy Tales.