appeared in 4 vols. 1821, and supplement 1 vol. 1822; 3rd edit. 4 vols. 1822; 4th edit. 4 vols. 1823; 5th edit. 4 vols. 1825; 6th edit. 4 vols. in 5, 1828; 7th edit. 4 vols. in 5, 1834; 8th edit. 5 vols. 1846; 9th edit. revised, corrected, and enlarged, 5 vols. 1846; 10th edit. by the author, with the assistance of Samuel Davidson, LL.D., and Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, LL.D., 4 vols. 1856; 11th edit., with the assistance of John Ayre, M.A., and S. P. Tregelles, 4 vols. 1860. Many other editions have appeared in the United States. Of the seventh edition the fifth volume was issued separately as ‘Manual of Biblical Bibliography,’ 1839. Immediately after its first appearance it took its place in literature as one of the principal class-books for the study of the Scriptures in all English-speaking protestant colleges and universities.
Other of Horne's works besides those described above were:
- ‘A Compendium of the Statute Laws and Regulations of the Court of Admiralty, relative to Ships of War, Privateers, &c.,’ Lond. 1803, 12mo.
- ‘Wallis's Pocket Itinerary; being a … Guide to all the principal Direct and Cross Roads throughout England, Wales, and Scotland’ (pseudonymous), Lond. 1803, 18mo.
- ‘The Complete Grazier; or Farmer's and Cattle-dealer's Assistant’ (anon.), Lond. 1805, 8vo.
- ‘Hints on the Formation and Management of Sunday Schools’ (anon.), Lond. 1807, 12mo.
- ‘Catalogue of the Library of the Surrey Institution, methodically arranged’ (anon.), Lond. 1811, 8vo; 2nd edit. 1812.
- ‘Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Harleianæ Catalogus,’ Lond. 1812, fol., forming the fourth volume of the ‘Catalogue of the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum.’
- ‘Introduction to the Study of Bibliography; to which is prefixed a Memoir on the Public Libraries of the Antients,’ 2 vols., Lond. 1814, 8vo.
- ‘An Illustrated Record of Important Events in the Annals of Europe during 1812–15’ (anon.), Lond. fol.
- ‘Deism Refuted; or Plain Reasons for being a Christian,’ 1819; 7th edit. 1826.
- ‘The Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity briefly stated and defended, with a Defence of the Athanasian Creed,’ 1820; 2nd edit. 1826.
- ‘Outlines for the Classification of a Library, submitted to the Trustees of the British Museum,’ Lond. 1825, 4to.
- ‘Catalogue of the Library of … Queens' College, Cambridge, methodically arranged,’ 2 vols. 1827, 8vo.
- ‘Romanism contradictory to the Bible,’ 1827.
- ‘A Compendious Introduction to the Study of the Bible,’ 1827; tenth London edition, with the assistance of the Rev. John Ayre, 1862.
- ‘Manual of Parochial Psalmody,’ 1829; forty-first edit. 1861.
- ‘Manual for the Afflicted,’ 1832.
- ‘Bibliographical Notes on the Book of Jasher,’ 1833.
- ‘The Conformity of the Church of England … to the Apostolic Precept and Pattern,’ 1834.
- ‘A Protestant Memorial,’ 1835.
- ‘Mariolatry; or Facts and Evidences demonstrating the Worship of the Virgin Mary in the Church of Rome’ (anon.), 1840.
- ‘Popery the Enemy and Falsifier of Scripture’ (anon.), 1844.
- ‘Popery Delineated’ (anon.), 1848.
- ‘The Communicant's Companion,’ 1855.
In 1805 Horne commenced, and for nine months edited, ‘The Tradesman, or Commercial Magazine;’ between 1815 and 1817 he edited ‘The Literary Panorama;’ and between 1824 and 1835 he contributed numerous historico-ecclesiastical articles to the ‘Encyclopædia Metropolitana.’ One of the articles, ‘Diplomacy,’ was afterwards appended to Polson's ‘Principles of the Law of Nations,’ 1848. He also edited Richard Lee's ‘Treatise on Captures in War,’ 2nd edit. 1803, 8vo; Richard Burn's ‘Justice of the Peace,’ 20th edit. 1805; ‘The Bible for the use of Families,’ with James Wallis, 1809; Callis's ‘Readings upon the Statutes of Sewers,’ 4th edit. 1810; John Clarke's ‘Bibliotheca Legum,’ 1810; Thomas Pott's ‘Compendious Law Dictionary,’ 1815; James Cavanagh Murphy's ‘Arabian Antiquities of Spain,’ 1816, with an introduction on ‘The History of the Mohammedan Empire in Spain,’ in which he was aided by John Gillies and John Shakespeare; Dr. Simon von Leeuwen's ‘Commentaries on the Romano-Dutch Law,’ 1820 (English transl.); Thomas Clerk's ‘Works of Hogarth,’ with life, 1821; Bishop Beveridge's ‘Works,’ with memoir, 9 vols., 1824. Horne's translations include Beaujour's ‘View of the Commerce of Greece,’ 1800; De Marten's ‘Essays on Privateers,’ 1801; Maignan's ‘Analysis of Raphael's Picture of the Transfiguration,’ 1817. He also wrote the descriptions for Joseph Farington's engravings of ‘The English Lakes,’ 1816, and for Finden's ‘Landscape Illustrations of the Bible,’ 1836.
[Reminiscences, Personal and Bibliographical, of T. H. Horne, with Notes by his Daughter, Sarah Anne Cheyne, and an introduction by the Rev. Joseph B. McCaul, Lond. 1862; McCaul's The Rev. T. H. Horne: a Sketch, 1862; Memoir by Turpin, reprinted from the Evangelical Magazine, 1862; Cowtan's Memories of the British Museum, p. 105; Gent. Mag. ccxii. 504; Martin's Privately Printed Books, 2nd ed. pp. 325, 428; Lowndes's Bibl. Man. (Bohn), ii. 1120; Darling's Cycl. Bibliographica; Allibone's Crit. Dict. of Engl. Literature.]
HORNE-TOOKE, JOHN. [See Tooke.]
