Henry G. Bohn began publishing the first of the Bohn's Library series in 1846; the Antiquarian
Library was launched in 1847. In Bohn's
Catalogue of Books of 1847 two titles were listed in the Antiquarian Library:
Bede's Ecclesiastical History
and
William of Malmesbury's Chronicle. By 1848, listed in the front of a volume of
Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough from Bohn's Standard Library
two additional titles -
Mallet's Northern Antiquities and
Six Old English Chronicles -
were listed, and seven other titles in press. It grew to become a very impressive list of primarily
medieval chronicles and early historical writings.