GEORGE SAINTSBURY
[This list is a selection.]
A PRIMER OF FRENCH LITERATURE. Clarendon Press. 1866 (fourth edition, revised, 1912).
JOHN DRYDEN. Macmillan. 1878. (English Men of Letters Series.)
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF LE SAGE. Privately printed, London, 1881.
A SHORT HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE. Clarendon Press. 1882 (Current edition, 1917).
FRENCH LYRICS. Kegan Paul. 1882. (Parchment Library.)
MARLBOROUGH. Long. 1885. (English Worthies.)
A HISTORY OF ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE. Macmillan. 1887 (ninth edition, 1907).
[The material in this volume deals with the larger "Elizabethan" period from Wyatt and Surrey to the Restoration.]
MANCHESTER: A HISTORY OF THE TOWN. Longmans. 1887.
ESSAYS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1780–1860. Percival. 1890.
THE EARL OF DERBY. Dent. 1890. Prime Ministers of Queen Victoria.
ESSAYS ON FRENCH NOVELISTS. Percival. 1891.
MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. Percival. 1892 (second edition, Rivington, 1895).
THE COOKERY OF THE PARTRIDGE. 1893. (Watson's Fur and Feather Series.)
THE COOKERY OF THE GROUSE. 1894. (Watson's Fur and Feather Series.)
CORRECTED IMPRESSIONS. Essays on Victorian Writers. Heinemann. 1895.
ESSAYS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1780–1860. Second Series. Dent. 1895.
INAUGURAL ADDRESS AT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY, October 15th, 1895. Blackwood. 1895.
SIR WALTER SCOTT: A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. Walter Scott Co. 1896. (Famous Scots Series.)
A HISTORY OF NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE, 1780–1895. Macmillan. 1896.
THE FLOURISHING OF ROMANCE AND THE RISE OF ALLEGORY. Blackwood. 1897. (Periods of European Literature.)
A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. Macmillan. 1898.
MATTHEW ARNOLD. 1899. (Modern English Writers.)
HISTORY OF CRITICISM AND LITERARY TASTE IN EUROPE. From the earliest texts to the present day. Three volumes. Blackwood. 1900-4.
THE EARLIER RENAISSANCE. Blackwood. 1901. (Periods of European Literature.)
A HISTORY OF ENGLISH PROSODY FROM THE TWELFTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT DAY. Two volumes. Macmillan. 1906.
THE LATER NINETEENTH CENTURY. Blackwood. 1907. (Periods of European Literature.)
HISTORICAL MANUAL OF ENGLISH PROSODY. Macmillan. 1910.
THE HISTORICAL CHARACTER OF THE ENGLISH LYRIC. 1912. (From Proceedings of the British Academy.)
A HISTORY OF ENGLISH PROSE RHYTHM. Macmillan. 1912.
THE ENGLISH NOVEL. Dent. 1913. (Channels of English Literature.)
A FIRST BOOK OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 1914.
THE PEACE OF THE AUGUSTANS. A Survey of Eighteenth-Century Literature as a place of rest and refreshment. G. Bell. 1916.
A HISTORY OF THE FRENCH NOVEL TO THE CLOSE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Macmillan. Vol. I., 1917. Vol. II., 1919.
LOCI CRITICI. Passages Illustrative of Critical Theory and Practice from Aristotle downwards; selections, part translation, and arrangement. Ginn. 1903.
CAROLINE POETS. Clarendon Press. Two volumes. (The complete works of certain minor Caroline Poets with reproductions of first edition title-pages, etc., and introductions to thirteen poets. A third volume is in preparation.) 1905.
[Chamberlayne's Pharonnida, Ayres's works, and other rarities are here to be found.]
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK. Maid Marian and Crotchet Castle; Melincourt; Gryll Grange; Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey; Misfortunes of Elphin and Rhododaphne.
He has also edited various series: the works of Dryden, Fielding, Goldsmith, Herrick, Montaigne, Racine, Donne (Poems), Longfellow, Shadwell, Thackeray, Richardson, Smollett, Sterne, Swift, and numerous collected or selected works of English and French authors.
He has written prefatory memoirs to Pride and Prejudice, Merope, A Calendar of Verse, Gil Blas, J. B. B. Nichols' Words and Days, Scott's Lives of the Novelists, Staël's Corinne, and various separate works of Thackeray, and he contributed many chapters to the Cambridge History of English Literature.