Henry Salt's Works Still in Print

Animals' Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress preface Peter Singer
Open Gate Press (Centaur Press), 1980, Hardcover, 256 pages, ISBN 0 900000 98 8, £12.00
Society for Animal Rights, Clarks Summit, Pennsylvannia, 1980, Paperback, ISBN: 0960263209, $6.00
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The Savour of Salt: A Henry Salt Anthology, Edited by George and Willene Hendrick
Open Gate Press (Centaur Press), 1989, Hardcover, 208 pages, ISBN 0 900001 30 5, £12.95
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Henry Salt: The Life of Henry David Thoreau Edited by George Hendrick, Willene Hendrick, and Fritz Oehlschlaeger
Open Gate Press (Centaur Press), 1993, Hardcover,153pp. ISBN 0 900001 42 9, £19.95
University of Illinois Press, 1993, Hardcover, 192pp. ISBN: 0252019938, $24
University of Illinois Press, August 2000, Paperback, 192pp. ISBN: 0252069064, $14.95
Translated versions now available in Japan and Korea!
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Henry Salt, Humanitarian Reformer and Man of Letters, by George Hendrick
University of Illinois Press, January 1977, Hardcover, 228 pages, ISBN: 0252006119 Still in Print, $24
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Salt and His Circle by Stephen Winsten
Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 1951, Hardcover, 224 pages, Out of Print [Details]

A Group of Unpublished Letters by Henry S. Salt to Joseph Ishill
Oriole Press, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey 1942, 58 pages. 50 copies printed [Details]

A Plea for Vegetarianism and Other Essays
Vegetarian Society, Manchester, 1886, 115 pages. [Details]

A Shelley Primer
Reeves and Turner [Ballantyne Press], London, 1887, 128 pages
Kennikat Press Corp., Port Washington, New York, 1969, 128 pages
AMS Press, Inc., New York, 1975

A Study of Shelley's "Julian and Maddale" Including 'The Aziola' by H.T. Wharton
Richard Clay & Sons, London, 1888, 32 pages, 25 copies only

An Examination of Hogg's 'Life of Shelley'
Richard Clay & Sons, London, 1889

Animals' Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress
George Bell & Sons Ltd., London, 1892, 166 pages
Macmillan Publishing Co., New York and London, 1894, 176 pages
(?) A. C. Fifield, London, 1899
William Reeves, A.& H.B. Bonner, 1899, 98 pages (Revised Edition)
A. C. Fifield, London, 1905, 119 pages (Revised edition)
George Bell & Sons Ltd., London, 1915, 124 pages
George Bell & Sons Ltd., London, 1922, 124 pages (Final Revised Edition)

Company I Have Kept
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1930, 218 pages [Details]

Consolations of a Faddist, Verses Reprinted from 'The Humanitarian'
A. C. Fifield, London, 1906, 32 pages.

Cvm Grano, Verses and Epigrams
Oriole Press, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, 1931, 146 pages [Details]

De Quincey
George Bell & Sons Ltd., London, 1904, 112 pages. [Details]
Macmillan, New York, 1904
Folcrofy Library Editions, Folcoft, Pennsylvania, 1978

Eton under Hornby: Some Reminiscences and Reflections
A. C. Fifield, London, 1910, 126 pages

Flesh or Fruit? An Essay on Food Reform Reprinted from the Westminster Review
W. Reeves and Turner, London, 1888, 48 pages. [Details]

Homo Rapiens, and Other Verses
Watts & Co., London, 1926, 70 pages

Humanitarianism: Its General Principles and Progress Reprinted from the Westminster Review. Also, the Humanitarian League's Publications. no. 1. 1891
Reeves and Turner, London, 1891, 27 pages
Reeves and Turner, London, 1893, 27 pages (Second Edition)
The Humanitarian League, 1906
Watts and Co., London, 1926

Life of Henry David Thoreau
Richard Bentley & Son, London, 1890
Walter Scott Ltd., London, 1896, 208 pages - Revised Edition
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1896
Archon Books, Hamden, Connecticut, 1968
Elibron Classics, 2002, 200 pages - Paperback replica of 1896 edition by Walter Scott Limited, London [Order]

Literae Humaniores, An Appeal to Teachers Reprint from the Humanitarian League's Publications, No. 14. 1891
The Humanitarian League, 1894, 32 pages

Literary Sketches
Swan, Sonnenscheim, Lowrey & Co., London, 1886 and 1888, 235 pages [Details]

Memories of Bygone Eton
Hutchinson & Co., London, 1928, 264 pages (Blue cloth cover) [Details]
Hutchinson & Co., London, 1931, 264 pages (Red cloth cover)

On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills: Pilgrimages to Snowdon and Scawfell
A. C. Fifield, London, 1908, 128 pages
(?) C.W. Daniel, 1908, 128 pages
(?) A. C. Fifield, London, 1911
C. W. Daniel, London, 1922, 124 pages (Revised Edition) [Details]

Our Vanishing Wildflowers and Other Essays (Afterword by Sir Maurice Abbot-Anderson)
Watts and Co., London, 1928, 86 pages

Percy Bysshe Shelley (A Monograph)
Swan, Sonnenscheim, Lowrey & Co., London, 1888 and 1892, 277 pages

Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet and Pioneer: A Biographical Study
Reeves and Turner/Charles Scribner's Sons, London/New York, 1896, 191 pages [Details]
(?) A. C. Fifield, London, 1905
Watts and Co., London, 1913, 135 pages (Revised Edition)
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1924, 185 pages
Kennikat Press Corp., Port Washington, New York, 1968, Hardcover, ISBN: 0804604037, 87 pages

Richard Jefferies: His Life and His Ideas (A Study)
London: Swan Sonnenschein; New York: Macmillan, 1894, 128 pages (A Study)
London: Swan Sonnenschein; New York: Macmillan, 1894 (Large paper copy, limited to 280 copies)
A. C. Fifield, London, 1906, 119 + 6pp (Published in the US in 1905)
(?) A. C. Fifield, London, 1913

Seventy Years Among Savages
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1921, 251 pages
T. Seltzer Inc., New York, 1921 [Details]

Shelley as a Pioneer of Humanitarianism Reprint from The Humane Review
The Humanitarian League, London, 1902, 15 pages
(?) T. Seltzer Inc., New York, 1921

Shelley's Principles: Has Time Refuted or Confirmed Them? A Retrospect and Forecast
Reeves and Turner, London, 1892, 82 pages
Haskell House Publishers Ltd., Brooklyn, New York, 1977, ISBN: 0838321615

Tennyson As a Thinker A criticism.
Reeves and Turner, London, 1893, 56 pages
A. C. Fifield, 1909, 32 pages
Folcroft Library Editions, Folcroft, Pennsyvania, 1971 & 1977, 32 pages
Norwood, Pa. : Norwood Editions, ISBN: 084826374X

The Call of The Wildflower
George Allen and Unwin Ltd, London, 1922, 1928, 192 pages

The Case Against Corporal Punishment
The Humanitarian League, London, 1913, and 1922, 29 pages

The Creed of Kinship
Constable & Co., London, 1935, 118 pages
E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1935 [Details]

The Flogging Craze: A Statement of the Case Against Corporal Punishment
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1916, 159 pages [Details]
Republished: 08.01.1983 ISBN: 0875851975 - No further details known

The Heart of Socialism: Letters to a Public School Man (Preface by Lord Oliver)
Independent Labour Party, London, 1928, 62 pages

The Humanities of Diet, Some Reasonings and Rhymings
(?) The Humanitarian League, London, 1897
The Vegetarian Society, Manchester, 1914, 70 pages

The Life of James Thomson ('B.V') with a Selection from His Writings and a Study of His Writings
Reeves and Turner, London, 1889, 335 pages
A. & H. B. Bonner, London, 1898, 206 pages
A. C. Fifield, London, 1905
Watts and Co., London, 1914, 169 pages
Kennikat Port Washington, 1972

The Logic of Vegetarianism: Essays and Dialogues
Idea Publishing Union Ltd., London, 1899
George Bell & Sons Ltd., London, 1906, 116 pages
George Bell & Sons Ltd., London, 1918
London Vegetarian Society, London, 1932 and 1933 [Details]

The New Charter, A Discussion of the Rights of Men and the Rights of Animals
George Bell & Sons Ltd., London, 1896, 155 pages

The Nursery of Toryism: Reminiscences and Reflections (Eton under Hornby - Popular issue)
A. C. Fifield, London, 1911, 126 pages

The Song of the Respectables and Other Verses
Labour Press Society, Manchester, 1896, 20 pages

The Story of My Cousins: Brief Animal Biographies
Watts and Co., London, 1923, 70 pages

A Vindication of Natural Diet, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
F. Pitman, London; J. Heywood and the Vegetarian Society, Manchester, 1884, 27 pages

Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers, by Henry David Thoreau
Swan, Sonnenscheim, Lowrey & Co., London, 1890, 141 pages [Details]
Ayer Company Publishers Incorporated, Hardcover, ISBN: 0836986652, June 1990

Cruelties of Civilization: A Program of Humane Reform
Reeves and Turner, London, 1894-97, 3 volumes [Details]

Godwin's 'Political Justice', A Reprint of the Essay on 'Property' from the Original Edition
Swan, Sonnenscheim, Lowrey & Co., London, 1890
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1890, 1918, 1929, 1940 and 1949, 155 pages

Humanitarian Essays, New Series No. 11
The Humanitarian League, 1910

Killing for Sport: Essays by Various Writers, edited by Henry S. Salt
George Bell & Sons Ltd., London, 186 pages, 1914 [Details]
(Further printings 1915 and 1917)

Kith and Kin: Poems of Animal Life
George Bell & Sons Ltd., London, 95 pages, 1901 [Details]

Poems of Nature, by Henry David Thoreau, edited by Henry S. Salt and Frank H. Sanborn
John Lane, London; Houghton Mifflin & Co., New York and Boston, 1895, 122 pages

Selections from the Poems of John E. Barlas, edited with preface by H. S. Salt.
Elkin Mathews: London, 1925, 64 pages.

Selected Prose Works of Shelley, with a forward by Henry S. Salt
Watts and Co., London, 1915, 176 pages [Details]
Watts and Co., London, 1922, 176 pages (Centenary Edition)

Selections from Richard Jefferies
Longmans, Greenward and Co, 1922, 153 pages

Selections from Thoreau Edited with an introduction by H. S. Salt
Macmillan and Co, London, 1895, 330 pages
Elibron Classics, 2001, 330 pages - Paperback replica of 1895 edition by Macmillan and Co. [Order]

Songs of Freedom Selected and edited, with an introduction, by H.S. Salt.
W. Scott Ltd., London and New York, 1893, 345 pages [Details]

Songs of the Army of the Night, by Francis Adams, with an introduction by Henry S. Salt
William Reeves: London, 1894, 132 pages
A. C. Fifield: London, 1910, 125 pages (New and revised edition)

The City of Dreadful Nights and Other Poems, by James Thomson ("B.V."), preface by Henry S. Salt
Watts & Co., London, June 1932 and October 1934, 110 pages

The Story of Dido and Aeneas: The Fourth Book of Virgil's 'Aeneid' (Translated into English Verse)
The University Press, Cambridge, 1928, 304 pages

Treasures Of Lucretius: Selected Passages from the 'De Rerum Natura' (Translated into English Verse by Henry S. Salt)
Watts and Co., London, 1912, 64 pages

A Cardinal on the Rights of Labour
Justice, No. 83 - August 15, 1885, page 2

A Lover of Animals - a play performed in London, 1900
The Vegetarian Review, February 1895, pages 52-63
The Humane Review, Vol. 5 1904-5
Henry Salt, Humanitarian Reformer and Man of Letters, University of Illinois Press, 1977
Lion's Den Press, Rochester, New York, 1984. [Details]

A Nursey of Millionaires
To-day, June 1885, pages 239-244

A Sage at Close Quarters
Edward Carpenter: In Appreciation edited by G. Beith, London, 1931, pages 180-199

Confessions of an Eton Master
The Nineteenth Century, January 1885

David Henry Thoreau: A Centenary Essay
The Humanitarian, published in four parts in January, February, March and April 1917
The Humanitarian League, 1917, 30 page book in paper wrappers - Uses Thoreau's proper name
Thoreau Journal Quarterly, International Issue Vol. 7 No. 3, July 1975, pagse 4-11

Edgar Allan Poe's Writings
Progress, July 1887
Reprinted in Literary Sketches, Swan Sonnenschein, 1888

Edward Carpenter's Writings
The Pioneer, E. W. Allen, London, January 1891, Page 1-13

Fallacies of Flagellants
The Humanitarian League, 1913, 15 pages

Fashionable Cricket
Justice, No. 78 - July 11, 1885, page 5
Reprinted in Henry Salt, Humanitarian Reformer and Man of Letters

Fasting and Feasting
Justice, No. 64 - April 4, 1885, page 4

Have Animals Rights?
Humane Review, January 1908 (Vol. 8: 1907-1908), pages 219-36 [Details]

Marquesan Melville
The Gentleman's Magazine, CCLXXII, 248-257 (March, 1892)

James Leigh Joynes: Some Reminiscences
Social Democrat No. 8, August 1897, pages 232-238
Dictionary of Labour Biography, Vol. VIII, Edited by Joyce M. Bellany and John Saville, MacMillian Press Ltd, 1987, pages 129-132

Liberty and Force
Justice, No. 69 - May 9, 1885, page 2

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Romances
Progress, September 1887
Reprinted in Literary Sketches, Swan Sonnenschein, 1888

On Certain Lyric Poets, And Their Critics
Temple Bar, January 1883
Reprinted in Literary Sketches, Swan Sonnenschein, 1888

Restrictionists and Abolitionists
Humanity 4, November 1900, pages 85-6.
Animals' Agenda 7, November 1987, pages 42-3 [Details]

Schoolboy Charity
Justice, No. 53 - January 17, 1885, page 4
Reprinted in Henry Salt, Humanitarian Reformer and Man of Letters in its entirety

Shelley and the Quarterly Review
To-day, 1885, pages 5-11

Shelley as a Teacher
Temple Bar, November 1882, pages 365-377
Reprinted in Literary Sketches, Swan Sonnenschein, 1888

Shelley's Gospel of Nature
The Hygienic Review, No. 19, July 1, 1892, pages 185-187

Shelley's Views on Social Reform
Justice, No. 94 - October 31, 1885, page 2

Single Works of Herman Melville - New edition, with a memoir of the author by H. S. Salt
J. Murray: London, 1893, 321 pages

Socialism and Literature
New Review, January 1891
Forecasts of the Coming Century By a Decade of Writers, Labour Press Society, Manchester, 1897, pages 73-85 [Details]
Hand and Brain: A Symposium of Essays on Socialism, Roycrofter Printing Shop, East Aurora, New York, 1898, 142 pages [Details]

Socialists and Vegetarians
To-day, November 1896, page 172-74

Some Thoughts on De Quincey
Time, October, 1887
Reprinted in Literary Sketches, Swan Sonnenschein, 1888

The Beagler Boy
Vol. 1 No. 1 - A. C. Fifield, London, February, 1907, 8 pages
Vol. 1 No. 2 - A. C. Fifield, London, March, 1907, 4 pages

The Brutalitarian 'A Journal for the Sane and Strong'
Vol. 1 No. 1, October 1904, 4 pages

The Ethics of Corporal Punishment
International Journal of Ethics, Volume 16, Issue 1, October 1905, pages 77-88
The Humanitarian League, London, 1907 and 1909, 16 pages

The Eton College Hare-Hunt. By Etonensis. Reprinted from the Humane Review
Humanitarian League: London, 1906, 15 pages

The Eton College Hare-Hunt
Supplement to The Humanitarian, March 1909, 4 pages

The Eton Hare Hunt
A. C. Fifield, 1909, 24 pages
Re-published in Humanitarian Essays, New Series No. 11, 1910

The Faith of Richard Jefferies
Westminster Review, 1905, pages 177-185
Watts and Co., London, 1906, 15 pages, "Issued for the Rationalist Press Assoc., Ltd."

The Home Secretary's Holiday - a play
Henry Salt, Humanitarian Reformer and Man of Letters, University of Illinois Press, 1977

The Humanities of Diet
Animal Rights and Human Obligations (1st Edition), by Tom Regan and Peter Singer
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1976. ISBN: 0130375314 0130375233

The Joy That Never Palls (a poem)
Progress, VI, November, 1886, page 456

The Logic of The Larder
Animal Rights and Human Obligations (1st Edition), by Tom Regan and Peter Singer
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1976. ISBN: 0130375314 0130375233

The Poetry of John Barlas
The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly, Volume XI, October, 1896 (John Lane, the Bodley Head London)

The Practical with the Ideal (H.S. Salt on Herman Melville)
The Critical Response to Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" (Critical Responses in Arts and Letters) , Edited by Kevin J. Hayes,
Greenwood Press; Hardcover - 255 pages, 30 November, 1994, ISBN: 0313287724 [Details]

The Rights of Animals
International Journal of Ethics, Volume 10, Issue 2 (January 1900), 206-22. [Details]

The Secret of the Reptile House, Snake Feeding at the Zoological Gardens
The Humanitarian League, London, 1909
Re-published in Humanitarian Essays, New Series No. 11, 1910

The Sportsmen at Bay Reprinted from the Humane Review
The Humanitarian League, London, 1906, 12 pages
International Journal of Ethics, Volume 16, Issue 4, July 1906, pages 487-97
Revised version published in Killing for Sport (see above) as "Sportmen's Fallacies"

The Huntsman at Bay
The New Adelphi 2 no.3 (June 1929), pp.339-343
(also see 'The Sportsman at Bay')

The Story of a Heart
To-day, June 1888, pages 163-168

The Tennysonian Philosophy
To-day, No. 2 - February 1884, pages 135-147 (Title: The Poet Laurette as Philosopher and Peer)
Reprinted in Literary Sketches, Swan Sonnenschein, 1888

The War in the North
Justice, No. 82 - August 8, 1885, pages 4

The Works of James Thomson ("BV")
The Gentlemans's Magazine, June 1886
Reprinted in Literary Sketches, Swan Sonnenschein, 1888

Theory and Practice
Justice, No.56 - February 21, 1885, pages 4-5

Henry D. Thoreau
Justice, No.96 - November 14, 1885, page 2

Thoreau
Temple Bar, November 1886
Reprinted in Literary Sketches, Swan Sonnenschein, 1888

Thoreau
The Hygienic Review, May 1896

Thoreau and the Simple Life
Humane Review, October 1906 (Volume 7), pages 202-208

Thoreau as Pioneer
The Humanitarian, September 1917 (Volume 8), pages 59-60

Thoreau's Life
The Spectator, No. 65, October 18, 1890, pages 526-527

Thou Shalt Not Steal
Justice, No. 61 - March 14, 1885, page 2
Reprinted in Henry Salt, Humanitarian Reformer and Man of Letters

Two Kinds of Genius
Progress, November, 1883
Reprinted in Literary Sketches, Swan Sonnenschein, 1888

Two Similar Pastimes: Sport and War Second edition, reprinted from The Creed of Kinship
National Society for the Abolition of Cruel Sports, London, 1947, 6 pages

Utopia
Justice, No. 71 - May 23, 1885, page 2

Walking Stewart (a sketch of an eccentric pedestrian)
Temple Bar, December, 1891, 93: 573-578

What is Humanitarianism?
Humane Review, October 1907 (Volume 8: 1907-1908), pages 178-88
The Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, edited by J. Hastings, Volume 6, New York: Charles Scribner's, 1961, pages 836-40 [Details]

William Godwin
To-day, July 1887
Reprinted in Literary Sketches, Swan Sonnenschein, 1888

(William) Cobbett's "Legacy To Labourers"
Justice, No. 73 - June 6, 1885, page 2

Please note: Some of these essays, such as 'The Case Against Corporal Punishment', are in book form, but are essentially pamphlets

Jim Leigh Joynes, Jr. (1853 -1893) had a profound influence on Salt and became his brother-in-law when Salt married Catherine Leigh Joynes in 1879.

Books:

Songs of a Revolutionary Epoch
Foulger, 1888, 176 pages

The Adventures of a Tourist in Ireland (Usually can be bought for under £10 or $15)
Paul Kegan, Trench, 1882

Articles and Pamphlets:

A Political Tour of Ireland
The Times, September 4th 1882, page 4

Socialist Rhymes
The Modern Times Press, 1885, 16 page pamphlet

The Death of a Tyrant (a poem)
To-day, Volume 3 1885, May 1885, page 228

The Red International
To-day, Volume 2 1884, No. 8 - August 1884, pages 129-140

The Socialist Catechism
Social Democratic Federation, 16 pages - Reprinted with additions from Justice

Wage-Labor and Capital by Marx, Karl; translated by J.L. Joynes
Charles H. Kerr Co, Chicago, ca 1900, 53 pages

WAS THUN? A Nihilist's Novel
To-day, Volume 1 1884, No. 2 - February 1884, page 98-109

Short Biography, including Salt's tribute:
Dictionary of Labour Biography, Vol. VIII, Edited by Joyce M. Bellany and John Saville, MacMillian Press Ltd, 1987, pages 129-134 (Preston Harris Library, Reference section)

The Philosophy of Failure by Henry S. Salt
Not published and the manuscript seems to have disappeared (assuming that it was written at all)

Pertaining To Thoreau by Samuel Arthur Jones - Dedicated to Henry Salt as follows: "To Henry S. Salt - Thoreau's Most Sympathetic Biographer - This Volume is Inscribed."
Ysleta, Texas: Edwin B. Hill, n.d., ca. 1905 [Details]

(?) - denotes the book has been listed as being published but as yet cannot confirm publication. If you have any of these editions please e-mail us with the details.

The above list was originally compiled by Charles R. Magel and was first published in the 1980 edition of Salt's Animals' Rights. Additional information provided by George Hendrick, Simon Wild, Chien-hui Li, John Pontin, and Michael Meredith (Eton College Librarian).

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