1848-1850
(In)
Politics for the People (1848 John W Parker)
- [contribs under pseud of Parson Lot]
The Saint's Tragedy, or the True Story of Elizabeth of Hungary
(1848 John W Parker, London)
- 1st Book
Yeast (1848)
Alton Locke : Tailor & Poet - An Autobiography (1850 Chapman & Hall)
[ Both the above two books advocating Christian Socialism]
1851-1860
Phaethon, or Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers (1852 Macmillan)
100 pp. wrappers
Hypatia, or New Foes with an Old Face (1853 John W Parker, London)
- 2 vols
Offered in 1999 for £250
Alexandria and Her Schools (1854 Macmillan, Cambridge)
Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore (1855 Macmillan)
Westward Ho!, or the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh
(1855 Macmillan)
- 3 vols (1855 Ticknor & Fields)
The Heroes, or Greek Fary Tales for My Children (1856 Macmillan)
- Author
Poems (1856 Ticknor & Fields)
Andromeda and Other Poems (1858 John W Parker, London)
Kingsley's Miscellanies (1859 John W Parker, London)
- 2 vols
Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time (1859 Ticknor & Fields)
Phaethos, or Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers (1859 Macmillan. 3rd Ed)
1861-1870
The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures (1864 Macmillan)
Hereward the Wake, the Last of the English (1866 Macmillan)
(1866 Ticknor & Fields, Boston)
Hereward the Wake (1870 Art-Union of London)
- H C Selous
Madam How and Lady Why or First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children (1870 Strahan)
At Last (1870)
1871-1880
At Last : A Christmas in the West Indies (1871 Macmillan - 2 vols)
(1871 Harper, NY)
Collected Poems (1872)
Town Geology (1872 Strahan)
Plays and Puritans, & Other Historical Essays (1873 Macmillan)
South by West or Winter in the Rocky Mountains and Spring in Mexico (1874 London)
Health and Education (1875 Daldy, Isbister, London)
His Letters & Memories : Edited by His Wife (1877 Henry S King)
- 2 vols
1881-1900
His Letters and Memories of His Life (1883 Kegan Paul)
- edited by Mrs Kingsley
(1894 Macmillan - 2 vols)
From Death to Life (1887 Macmillan)
- edited by His Wife
The Works (1891 London)
- 6 vols
Westward Ho ! (1896 Macmillan)
- 2 vols. Charles E Brock
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales (c1900
Ernest Nister)
- T A Robertson
1901 Onwards
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales (1907 Routledge)
- Jessie M King
Two Years Ago (1911 Macmillan)
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales (1912 Warner for the Medici Society, London)
- 500. W Russell Flint
Offered in 1999 for £400
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales (1915 A & C Black)
- Sybil Tawse
The Tutor's Story : An Unpublished Novel revised and completed by His Daughter (1916 Smith Elder)
Westward Ho ! (1920 Scribner NY)
- N C Wyeth
Westward Ho ! (1923 Dent)
- E A Cox
Westward Ho ! (1947 Ltd Eds Club, NY)
- 2 vols. 1500 signed by Edward A Wilson
EDITIONS OF 'THE WATER BABIES'
A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
19thC
1863 Macmillan - J Noel Paton. Ltd Ed 200 containing the verse 'L'Envoi"
1863 Macmillan - as above, later printing minus the verse
1865 Macmillan - 100 illus by Linley Sambourne
1869 Macmillan - J Noel Paton & Percival Skelton
1886 Macmillan : Linley Sambourne
1901-1920
1900 A Wessell, NY - G Wright
1905 TC & EC Jack - Katherine Cameron
1907 Nister - 6 colour plates & 70 half tone. Arthur A Dixon
1908 Dent - 12 colour plates by Margaret Tarrant
1908 Headley Bros - George Soper
1909 Blackie - Alice B Woodward
1909 Macmillan - Warwick Goble. + Ltd Ed 260 numbered copies in slipcase
1909 Macmillan - Warwick Goble
1910 Chapman & Hall - 24 colour plates by Ethel Everett
1915 Constable, UK & Houghton Mifflin, US - W Heath Robinson
1915 Raphael Tuck - Mabel Lucie Attwell. Abridged version
1919 J A Sharp - Gordon Robinson
1916 Dodd, Mead NY - Jessie Willcox Smith. 12 colour plates
1919 Hodder & Stoughton - as above. UK 1st
1920 OUP - A E Jackson
After 1921
c1930 H & S/Boots Library - as above
1922 Ward Lock - 48 colour plates by Harry Theaker
1924 Jack - Anne Anderson
1927 Dent - Margaret Tarrant
1928 A & C Black - Muriel Dawson
1957 Dent - 4 colour plates & b/w illus Rosalie K Fry
1961 Gollancz - Harold Jones
1981 H & S - Reproduction of original UK 1919 version - Jessie Willcox Smith
Ltd Ed 500 numbered in slipcase
[Filmed in 1978]
READING
Dean A P Stanley : Funeral Sermon for Charles Kingsley (1875 PP)
Reginald C Davenport : A Brief Account of the Kingsley Family (1911 PP)
W Henry Brown : Charles Kingsley - The Work and Influence of Parson Lot
(1924 Co-op Union, Manchester)
Stanley E Baldwin : Charles Kingsley (1934 Cornell UP)
Margaret Farraud Thorp : Charles Kingsley 1819-1875 (1937 Princeton UP)
Crusader (Charles D Boltwood)
: Logic of Eternal Life; Spirit Revelation Unveils the Bible;
Exaltation and Woman; Messages of Charles Kingsley; Spirit Sermons of 1940;
Deathless Freedom (c1940 PP)
- 6 vols
[Crusader, a medium, claimed he had received these revelations about
the Bible from Charles Kingsley]
Guy Kendall : Charles Kingsley and His Ideas (1947 Hutchinson)
Una Pope-Hennessy : Canon Charles Kingsley - A Biography (1948 Chatto & Windus)
(Ed)
R B Martin : Charles Kingsley's American Notes - Letters from a Lecture Tour 1874 (1958 Princeton)
R B Martin : The Dust of Combat - A Life of Charles Kingsley (1959 Edward Arnold)
G Egner : Apologia pro Charles Kingsley (1969 Sheed & Ward)
Elspeth Huxley : The Kingsleys - A Biographical Anthology (1973 Allen & Unwin)
Susan Chitty : The Beast and the Monk - A Life of Charles Kingsley (1974 Hodder & Stoughton £4.95)
B Collums : Charles Kingsley - The Lion of Eversley (1975)