Walter Besant - Selected Primary Bibliography

Selected Primary Bibliography

Fiction

• The Alabaster Box. 1900.
• Alfred. 3rd ed. 1899.
• All in a Garden Fair. 3 vols. 1883.
• All Sorts and Conditions of Men. 3 vols. 1882.
• Armorel of Lyonesse. 3 vols. 1890.
• The Bell of St. Paul's. 3 vols. 1889.
• Beyond the Dreams of Avarice. 1895.
• Blind Love. By Wilkie Collins, completed and with preface by W. Besant. 3 vols. 1890.
• By Celia’s Arbour: A tale of Portsmouth town. With James Rice. Reprinted from The Graphic. 3 vols. 1878.
• The Captains' Room etc.. 3 vols.
• The Case of Mr. Lucraft and other tales. By the authors of Ready Money Mortiboy (with James Rice). 2 vols. 1876.
• The Changeling. 1898.
• The Chaplain of the Fleet. With James Rice 3 vols. 1881.
• Children of Gibeon. 2nd ed. 3 vols. 1886.
• The City of Refuge. 3 vols. 1896.
• Dorothy Forster. 3 vols. 1884.
• Doubts of Dives. .
• A Five Years' Tryst and other stories. 1902.
• For Britain's Soldiers. By W.L. Alden, Sir W. Besant etc., with preface by C.J.C. Hyne. 1900.
• For Faith and Freedom. 3 vols. 1889.
• A Fountain Sealed. 1897.
• The Fourth Generation. 1900.
• The Golden Butterfly. With James Rice. 3 vols. 1876.
• Herr Paulus. 3 vols. 1888.
• The Holy Rose &c. 1890.
• In Deacon's Orders &c. 1895.
• The Ivory Gate. 3 vols. 1893.
• The Lady of Lynn. 1901.
• The Master Craftsman. 2 vols. 1896.
• The Monks of Thelema. With James Rice. 3 vols. 1878.
• My Little Girl. By the authors of Ready-money Mortiboy. With James Rice. 3 vols. 1873.
• No Other Way. 1902.
• The Orange Girl. 1899.
• Ready-Money Mortiboy. Repr. from Once a Week. With James Rice. 3 vols. 1872. Repr. of 1885 ed. Bath, 1974.
• The Rebel Queen. 3 vols. 1893.
• The Revolt of Man. 1882. .
• St. Katherine's by the Tower. 3 vols. 1891.
• The Seamy Side. With James Rice. 3 vols. 2nd. ed. 1880.
• The Ten Years' Tenant and other stories. With James Rice. 3 vols.
• This Son of Vulcan. By the authors of Ready-Money Mortiboy. With James Rice. 3 vols. 1876.
• To Call Her Mine &c. 1889.
• "Twas in Trafalgar's Bay" and other stories. With James Rice. 2nd ed. 1879.
• Uncle Jack &c. 1885.
• Verbena, Camellia, Stephanotis, &c. 1892.
• With Harp and Crown. By the authors of “Ready-Money Mortiboy.” With James Rice. 3 vols. 1875.
• The World Went Very Well Then. 3 vols. 1887.

Collected editions (fiction)

Novels by W.B. and James Rice. Library ed. 10 vols. 1887–88. Comprising in sequence Ready-Money Mortiboy, This Son of Vulcan, With Harp and Crown, The Golden Butterfly, By Celia’s Arbour, The Seamy Side, The Chaplain of the Fleet, The Case of Mr. Lucraft and Other Tales, ‘Twas in Trafalgar’s Bay and Other Stories, The Ten Years’ Tenant and Other Stories .

Plays

• The Charm and other drawing-room plays. With W. Pollock. 1896.

General non-fiction

• "The Amusements of the People", Contemporary Review 45 (1884): 342-53.
• William Tuckwell, Art and hand work for the people, being three papers read before the Social Science Congress, Sept. 1884. By W.T., C. G. Leland, and W. Besant. Manchester, 1885.
• The Art of Fiction: A Lecture Delivered at the Royal Institution on Friday Evening, April 25, 1884. 1884. New ed., 1902.
• As we are and as we may be. 1903.
• Autobiography. With prefatory note by S. Squire Sprigge. Hutchinson, 1902.
• 'Bourbon' journal, August 1863. 1933.
• Captain Cook. English Men of Action. 1890.
• Constantinople. A sketch of its history from its foundation to its conquest by the Turks in 1453. By W.J.B. and Walter Besant. 1879.
• Essays and Historiettes. 1903.
• The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies. 1888.
• Fifty Years Ago. 1888.
• The French Humourists from the 12th to the 19th century. 1873.
• Gaspard de Coligny. The New Plutarch. 1879. New ed. 1894.
• Jerusalem, the City of Herod and Saladin. By W.B. and E.H. Palmer. 1871.
• The Life and Achievements of Edward Henry Palmer. 1883.
• The Pen and the Book. 1899.
• "The People’s Palace", Contemporary Review 51 (1887): 226-33.
• The Queen’s Reign and its commemoration. 1897.
• Sir Richard Whittington, Lord Mayor of London. With James Rice. The New Plutarch. 1881. New ed. 1894.
• The Story of King Alfred. .
• Studies in Early French Poetry. 1868.
• Rabelais. 1879.

Selected Books on London

• East London. 1901.
• Early London: prehistoric, Roman, Saxon, and Norman. 1908.*
• Holborn and Bloomsbury. With G. E. Mitton. Fascination of London series. 1903.
• London. 1892.
• London. City. 1910.*
• London in the Eighteenth Century. 1902.*
• London in the Nineteenth Century. 1909.*
• London in the Time of the Stuarts. 1903.*
• London in the Time of the Tudors. 1904.*
• London, North of the Thames. 1911.*
• London, South of the Thames. 1912.*
• Medieval London. 2 vols. 1906.**
• Shoreditch and the East End. With others. Fascination of London series. 1908.
• South London. 1899.
• The Strand District. With G. E. Mitton. Fascination of London series. Repr. with corrections. 1903.
• The Thames. Fascination of London series. 1903.
• Westminster. 1895.