Constable's Miscellany

Constable's Miscellany volume XXXVI, engraving by William Miller

Constable's Miscellany was a part publishing serial established by Archibald Constable. Three numbers made up a volume; many of the works were divided into several volumes. The price of a number was one shilling.[1] The full series title was Constable's Miscellany of Original and Selected Publications, in the Various Departments of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

Archibald Constable died in 1827, and the Miscellany was taken over by a consortium of Aitken, Henry Constable, and a London publisher. When the publisher went bankrupt in 1831, the project became relatively dormant.[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]

  1. ^ William Goodhugh (1827). The English gentleman's library manual: or, A guide to the formation of a library of select literature; accompanied with original notices, biographical and critical, of authors and books. W. Goodhugh. pp. 107–9. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference JA was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Frances Milton Trollope (1838). One Fault: A Novel. Richard Bentley. p. 14. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
  4. ^ The Athenaeum. J. Lection. 1832. p. 816. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
  5. ^ Royal A. Gettmann (10 June 2010). A Victorian Publisher: A Study of the Bentley Papers. Cambridge University Press. pp. 28–30. ISBN 978-0-521-15320-1. Retrieved 27 September 2013.