•
February 4 – ''
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal'' is established by
William Chambers. •
March 31 – ''
Tait's Edinburgh Magazine'' is established by
William Tait. •
May 21 –
Washington Irving returns to the United States after living in Europe for seventeen years. •
September 21 – Scottish historical novelist and poet Sir
Walter Scott dies aged 61 at his home,
Abbotsford House, leaving his novel
The Siege of Malta unfinished; he is buried in the grounds of
Dryburgh Abbey with Presbyterian and Episcopalian ministers in attendance. The last of his
Waverley novels,
Count Robert of Paris and
Castle Dangerous, are published this year as the 4th series of
Tales of My Landlord 'collected and arranged by
Jedediah Cleishbotham'. • December (or January
1833) –
Richard Bentley (publisher), having purchased the remaining copyrights to all of
Jane Austen's novels from her sister
Cassandra, begins to return them to print (for the first time since
1820) in five illustrated volumes as part of his
Standard Novels series. •
Uncertain dates •
William Ticknor co-founds the publishing house that will become
Ticknor and Fields, a predecessor of
Houghton Mifflin, in
Boston, Massachusetts. •
James Atkinson makes the first translation from
Persian into English of
Ferdowsi's
Shahnameh,
The Sha Nameh of the Persian Poet Firdausi, translated and abridged in prose and verse with notes and illustrations; printed for the
Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland; sold by
John Murray. • The first
Baedeker guidebook,
Voyage du Rhin de Mayence à Cologne, by
Karl Baedeker in
Koblenz (his adaptation of J. A. Klein's
Rheinreise von Mainz bis Cöln of 1828) is published without a date. •
Ramón de Mesonero Romanos (as 'El Curioso Parlante') begins writing his series of
Escenas matritenses (Madrid scenes), originally in
Cartas españolas. •
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's
Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy is published. •
Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques opened on the site of the
Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique on the
Boulevard du Temple in Paris under
Frédérick Lemaître. • The early 13th century
Færeyinga saga, written in
Iceland, is first published. • Publishers begin the use of a paper jacket to wrap book covers. • Polish scholar Konstanty Swidzinski discovers a 15th-century Bible page called the
Karta medycka in the Polish village of
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