Raymond Adams (1917-1996)

The Books of Henry S. Salt, 1887-1937
 

When I talked with Henry S. Salt last summer and saw his keen eyes looking at me from the vantage point of eighty-six years on the frontiers of human reform, I became conscious that I was in the presence of greatness, that  a vast deal of life lay behind so keen an understanding. As I saw behind him a shelf of books all with his name on their backs, I knew that his human sympathy had flowered into warm expression more times than I had dreamed of before. All of us know the excellence of his biography of Thoreau. not surpassed in over forty years; some of us know his dozens of magazine articles about Thoreau; but have any of us realized the range of his work in the past fifty years? That its sheer range may be appreciated, and omitting all of his periodical articles, I have compiled a list of the various editions of Mr. Salt's separate publications and send the list as a tribute to the English and best biographer of Thoreau, hoping to remind us that there still is in the world one protestant against man's inhumanity. 
                                                                                 

1887

• A Shelly Primer. "Shelley Society Publications. Fourth series No. 4." London: Reeves and Turner.

1888        

• Literary Sketches. London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowery and Co.

• A Study of Shelley's "Julian and Maddalo." (Limited to 25 copies) Privately printed. Place and publisher not indicated. 

1889

• An Examination of Hogg's "Life of Shelley." (Limited to 25 copies) Privately printed. Place and publisher not indicated. 

• Life of James Thomson ("B.V.") With a Selection from his Letters and a Study of his Writings. London: A.C. Fifield.

1890

• The Life of Henry David Thoreau. London: Richard Bentley and Son. 

1892

• Animals' Rights and Social Progress, with a Bibliographical Appendix. New York: Macmillan.

• Animals' Rights and Social Progress, with a Bibliographical Appendix. Revised edition. London: George Bell and Sons, Ltd. 

• Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Monograph. "Dilettante Library." London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowery and Co. 

• Shelley's Principles: Has Time Refuted or Confirmed Them? London: Reeves and Turner. 

1893

• Richard Jeffries: A Study. London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowery and Co

• Songs of Freedom (Selected and Edited) "Canterbury Poets." London: Walter Scott, Ltd. 

• Tennyson as a Thinker. London: Reeves and Turner.

1894

• Animals' Rights, Considered in Relation to Social Progress. Also an  Essay on Vivisection in America by Albert Leffingwell. New York and London: Macmillan.

• Richard Jeffries: A Study. New York: Macmillan.

1896

• Life and Writings of Henry David Thoreau. From same plates as "Great Writers Series" edition, with new title page. London: Walter Scott, Ltd. 

• The Life of Henry David Thoreau. Revised edition. "Great Writers Series." New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 

• The Life of Henry David Thoreau. Revised edition. "Great Writers Series." London: Walter Scott, Ltd.

• Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet and Pioneer: A Biographical Study. London: Reeves and Turner. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.  

• The Song of the Respectables and Other Verses. Manchester: Labour Press Society, Ltd. 

1897

• Cruelties of Civilization: A Program of Human Reform. (Edited by Henry S. Salt) London: Reeves and Turner.

1901

• Kith and Kin: Poems of Animal Life. London: George Bell and Sons, Ltd.

1902

• Shelley as a Pioneer of Humanitarianism. "Reprinted from Humane Review." London: Humanitarian League. 

1904

• De Quincey. "Miniature Series of Great Writers." London: George Bell and Sons, Ltd.

• De Quincey. "Miniature Series of Great Writers." New York: Macmillan. 

1905

• Animals Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress. Revised edition. London: A.C. Fifield.

• Life of James Thomson ("B.V.") With a Selection from his Letters and a Study of his Writings. London: A.C. Fifield.

• Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet and Pioneer. "Cheaper edition." London: A.C. Fifield.

• Richard Jeffries: His Life and His Ideals. London: A.C. Fifield.

1906

• Logic of Vegetarianism, Essays and Dialogues. London: George Bell and Sons, Ltd.

• Logic of Vegetarianism, Essays and Dialogues. Second edition revised. New York: Macmillan.

• Richard Jeffries: His Life and His Ideals. New and cheaper edition in "Simple Life Series." London: A.C. Fifield.

1908

• On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills: Pilgrimages to Snowdon and Scawfell. London: A.C. Fifield.

1909

• The Ethics of Corporal Punishment. London: The Humanitarian League.

• The Eton Hare Hunt. London: A.C. Fifield. 

• The Secret of the Reptile House. Snake Feeding at the Zoological Gardens. London: The Humanitarian League.

• Tennyson as a Thinker. London: A.C. Fifield.

1911

• On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills: Pilgrimages to Snowdon and Scawfell. London: A.C. Fifield.

1912

• Treasure of Lucretius. Place and Publisher not indicated.

1913

• Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet and Pioneer. Revised edition. London: Watts and Co.

1914

• The Humanities of Diet: Some Reasons and Rhymings. London: Vegetarian Society.

• Life of James Thomson ("B.V.") With a Selection from his Letters and a Study of his Writings. Revised edition. London: Watts and Co.

1915

• Animals Rights and Social Progress, with a Bibliographical Appendix.  Revised ed. London: George Bell and Sons, Ltd.

1916

• The Flogging Craze: A Statement of the Case Against Corporal Punishment. London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd.

1917

• David Henry Thoreau: A Centenary Essay. London: The Humanitarian League.

• Killing for Sport: Essays by Various Writers. Edited by Henry S. Salt, with preface by Bernard Shaw. "War Time Edition." London: George Bell and Sons, Ltd.

1918

• Logic of Vegetarianism, Essays and Dialogues. Second revised edition. London: George Bell and Sons, Ltd.

1921

• Seventy Years Among Savages. London: Allen and Unwin.

• Seventy Years Among Savages. New York: Boni.

1922

• Animals Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress. Revised edition. London: George Bell and Sons, Ltd. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company

• The Call of the Wildflower. London: Allen and Unwin..

• On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills: Pilgrimages to Snowdon and Scawfell. Revised edition. London: C.W. Daniel Company.

1923

• The Story of My Cousins: Brief Animal Biographies. London: Watts and Company.

1924

• Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet and Pioneer. London: Allen and Unwin.

1926

• Homo Sapeins and Other Verses. London: Watts and Company. 

• The Story of Dido and Aeneas: The Fourth Book of Virgil's "Aeneid" Translated into English Verse. Translated by Henry S. Salt. London: Watts and Company.

1928

• The Story of Aeneas: Virgil's "Aeneid" Translated into English Verse. Translated by Henry S. Salt. Cambridge Univ. Press.

  • (Same) New York: Macmillan and Company.

• Our Vanishing Wildflowers and Other Essays. Afterword by Sir M. Abbot-Anderson. London: Watts and Company. 

• Memories of Bygone Eton. London: Hutchinson and Company.

1929

• Political Justice: A Reprint of the Essay on Property from the Original Edition by William Godwin. Edited by Henry S. Salt. London: Allen and Unwin, Ltd.

1930

• Company I Have Kept. London: Allen and Unwin.

1931

• Cum Grano, Verses and Epigrams by Henry S. Salt. Berkley Heights, N.J.: Oriole Press.

1933

• Logic of Vegetarianism, Essays and Dialogues. Revised edition. London: The Vegetarian Society.

1935

• The Creed of Kinship. London: Constable and Company.

A Note on the Text:

• 1st issued by Raymond Adams at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, December 1937. 

• Source:  Reproduced from a typescript in The Raymond Adams Collection in the Thoreau Society Collections: Salt, Henry S.

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