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''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. 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.〔 The entire list was later advertised by the London firm of Whittaker & Co. There were 80 volumes in all, the first appearing in 1826 and the last in 1835. ==Background and influence== 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. The ''Miscellany's'' first editor was John Aitken. 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.〔Scott Bennett, ''John Murray's Family Library and the Cheapening of Books in Early Nineteenth Century Britain'', Studies in Bibliography Vol. 29, (1976), pp. 139-166, at p. 141. Published by: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40371632〕 It was recognised in the new genre, of "libraries of useful knowledge".〔 Constable's project is recognised as initiating a publishing phenomenon of the later 1820s. Cheap editions marketed as small libraries were seen also in the ''Library of Useful Knowledge'', ''Library of Entertaining Knowledge'', ''Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia'', and series by Henry Colburn and Abraham John Valpy.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Constable's Miscellany」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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