his father run the firm. His own publishing projects included:

*Nineveh and its Remains (1848), publicising of Austen Henry Layard's discoveries;
*Lord Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors (1845-48), and Lives of the Chief Justices (1849);
*George Grote's History of Greece (1846-55);
*Murray's British Classics, annotated library editions of Byron, Gibbon, Goldsmith, and other writers; and
*the series of dictionaries by William Smith,