Hilaire Belloc's books

This is a chronological bibliography of books (with a few pamphlets) by the author Hilaire Belloc. His books of verse went through many different editions, and are not comprehensively covered.

To 1909

*"Verses and Sonnets" (1896) poems, Ward and Downey.
*"The Bad Child's Book Of Beasts" (1896) poems, Basil T. Blackwood" (B.T.B.) illustrator
*"More Beasts for Worse Children" (1897) poems, B. T. B. illustrator
*"The Modern Traveller" (1898) poems, B. T. B. illustrator
*"Danton; a study" (1899)
*"Paris, Its Sites, Monuments and History" (1898) with Maria Horner Lansdale
*"A Moral Alphabet" (1899) poems, B. T. B. illustrator
*"Paris" (1900)
*"Lambkin's remains" (1900)
*"Robespierre" (1901)
*"The Path To Rome" (1902) non-fiction
*"The great inquiry; faithfully reported by Hilaire Belloc and ornamented with sharp cuts drawn on the spot by G. K. Chesterton" (1903)
*"Caliban's Guide to Letters" (1903) also The aftermath or, Gleanings from a busy life
*"Emmanuel Burden, Merchant" (1904) novel
*"Avril. Essays on the French Renaissance" (1904) criticism
*"The Old Road: From Canterbury to Winchester" (1904)
*"Hills and the Sea" (1906)
*"Sussex" (1906) illustrations by Wilfrid Ball
*"Esto Perpetua: Algerian Studies and Impressions" (1906) travel
*"Cautionary Tales for Children" (1907) poems, B. T. B. illustrator
*"The Historic Thames" (1907)
*"Mr. Clutterbuck's Election" (1908) novel
*"On Nothing and Kindred Subjects " (1908) essays
*"On Everything" (1909) essays
*"The Eye-Witness" (1908)
*"A Change in the Cabinet" (1909) novel
*"Marie Antoinette" (1909) non-fiction
*"The Pyrenees" (1909)

1910 – 1919

*"Pongo and the Bull" (1910) novel
*"Catholicism and Socialism: Second Series" (1910) essays, with Joseph Rickaby and others
*"On Anything" (1910) essays
*"On Something" (1910) essays
*"Verses" (1910)
*"The Party System" (1911) non-fiction (with Cecil Chesterton)
*"More Peers" (1911) poems, B. T. B. illustrator
*"The Four Men: a Farrago" (1911) novel
*"The French Revolution" (1911) non-fiction
*"The Girondin" (1911) novel
*"First and last" (1911) essays
*"British Battles: Blenheim" (1911) "Turcoing" (1912), "Crécy" (1912), "Waterloo" (1912), "Malplaquet", "Poitiers" (1913); as "Six British Battles" 1931, 1951
*"The Servile State" (1912) politics/economics
*"The Green Overcoat" (1912) novel
*"The River of London" (1912)
*"This and That and the Other" (1912) essays
*"History of England" (1912) with John Lingard, 11 volumes, and later versions in the 1920s
*"The Stane Street: a monograph" (1913)
*"Warfare in England" (1913)
*"The Book of the Bayeux tapestry" (1914)
*"Land & Water; The World's War Vol. II" (Parts 14 to 26)" (1914) magazine, also in hard covers
*"The Romance of Tristan and Iseult" (1915) translation of Joseph Bédier's 1900 work
*"History of England" (1915) non-fiction
*"The Two Maps of Europe" (1915) non-fiction
*"A Change in the Cabinet" (1915)
*"A General Sketch of the European War, the First Phase" (1915)
*"At the Sign of the Lion" (1916) essays" (US)
*"The last days of the French monarchy" (1916)
*"A General Sketch of the European War, The Second Phase" (1916)
*"The Free Press" (1918)

1920 – 1929

*"Europe And The Faith" (1920) non-fiction
*"The House of Commons and Monarchy" (1920)
*"The Jews" (1922) later editions 1928, 1937
*"The Mercy of Allah" (1922)
*"The Road" (1923)
*"The Contrast" (1923)
*"On" (1923) essays
*"Economics for Helen" (1924) distributism
*"The Cruise of the Nona" (1925)
*"This and that and the other" (1925) essays
*"Mr. Petre" (1925) novel
*"The French Revolution" (1925)
*"The Campaign of 1812 and the Retreat from Moscow" (1925)
*"A Companion to Mr. Wells's "Outline of History" " (1926)
*"Mr. Belloc Still Objects" (1926) reply to "Mr. Belloc Objects: To "The Outline of History"" (1926) H. G. Wells controversy
*"The Catholic Church and History" (1926)
*"Short Talks with the Dead and others" (1926) Cayme Press
*"The emerald of Catherine the Great" (1926)
*"Essays of Today and Yesterday" (1926)
*"Miniatures of French History" (1926)
*"Mrs. Markham's New History of England" (1926)
*"The Highway and Its Vehicles" (1926) edited by Geoffrey Holme
*"Oliver Cromwell" (1927) non-fiction
*"The Haunted House" (1927) novel
*"Towns of Destiny" (1927)
*"Do We Agree?: A Debate Between G. K. Chesterton And Bernard Shaw, with Hilaire Belloc in the Chair" (1928)
*"Many Cities" (1928) travel
*"M. Wells et Dieu. Des poèmes et des essais " (1928) with Maurice Beerblock, A. Beucler, Pierre Colle, Elie Gothchaux, Robert Honnert, Georges Hugnet, Mercédès de Gournay, Max Jacob, Jean de Menasce, Eugenio d'Ors, Paul Sabon

*"James II" (1928) non-fiction
*"But Soft - We Are Observed!" (1928) novel" (Shadowed! US)
*"How the Reformation Happened" (1928)
*"Belinda: a tale of affection in youth and age" (1928) novel
*"A Conversation with an Angel: and other essays" (1928)
*"The Chanty of the Nona" (1928) Faber and Gwyer, Ariel Poems #9
*"The Missing Masterpiece" (1929) novel
*"Richelieu" (1929) non-fiction
*"Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church" (1929)

1930 – 1939

*"The Man Who Made Gold" (1930) novel
*"Wolsey" (1930) non-fiction
*"The Catholic Church and Current Literature" (1930) George N. Shuster, editor Hilaire Belloc (and other books of the Calvert Series)
*"Joan of Arc" (1930)
*"Pauline - Favorite Sister of Napoleon" (1930)
*"New Cautionary Tales" (1930) poems
*"Essays of a Catholic Layman in England" (1931)
*"A Conversation with a Cat: and others" (1931)
*"*"Cranmer" (1931) non-fiction
*"On Translation" (Oxford: Clarendon, 1931) Tayloran Lectures, 1931
*"Hilaire Belloc" (Augustan books of Modern Poetry) 1931
*"One Hundred and one Ballades" (1931) with E. C. Bentley G. K. Chesterton C.K. Scott-Moncrieff, Winifred Agar, Sidney Allnutt, Maurice Baring, Cecil Chesterton, Geoffrey Howard, Diggory King, H. S. Mackintosh
*"Nine Nines or Novenas from a Chinese Litany of Odd Numbers" (1931)
*"Napoleon" (1932) non-fiction
*"The Postmaster General" (1932) novel
*"Saulieu Of The Morvan" (1932)
*"The Question and the Answer" (1932)
*"Ladies and Gentlemen: For Adults Only and Mature at That" (1932) poems
*"An Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine" (1932) Curwen Press
*"Charles the First, King of England" (1933)
*"William the Conqueror" (1933)
*"Below bridges" (1933)
*"The Tactics and Strategy of the Great Duke of Marlborough" (1933)
*"How We Got The Bible" (1934) pamphlet
*"A Shorter History of England" (1934)
*"Milton" (1935) non-fiction
*"Hilaire Belloc" (1935) edited by E. V. Knox, Methuen Library of Humour
*"Characters Of The Reformation" (1936) non-fiction, also Three Reformers, Luther, Descartes, Rousseau
*"The Restoration Of Property" (1936) non-fiction
*"The hedge and the horse" (1936)
*"The Battleground: Syria and Palestine, The Seedplot of Religion" (1936)
*"The County of Sussex" (1936)
*"The Crisis Of Our Civilisation" (1937) non-fiction
*"The Crusades : The World's Debate" (1937)
*"An Essay on the Nature of Contemporary England" (1937)" (What England Really Is US)
*"Stories, essays, poems" (1938) edited by Ernest Rhys
*"Monarchy: a study of Louis XIV" (1938)
*"Return to the Baltic" (1938)
*"The Great Heresies" (1938)
*"The Church and Socialism" (1938)
*"The Case of Dr. Coulton" (1938)
*"On sailing the sea; a collection of seagoing writings" (1939) selected by W. N. Roughead
*"The Last Rally: A Story of Charles II" (1939) non-fiction

1940 – 1953

*"The Silence Of The Sea and Other Essays" (1940)
*"On the Place of Gilbert Chesterton in English Letters" (1940)
*"The Catholic and the War" (1940)
*"The Alternative" (1940) distributist pamphlet
*"Elizabethan Commentary" (1942)" ("Elizabeth, Creature of Circumstance" US)
*"Places" (1942)
*"Sonnets and Verse" (1945)
*"The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bedier" (1945) translated by Belloc and Paul Rosenfeld
*"Selected Essays" (1948) edited by J. B. Morton
*"An Anthology of his Prose and Verse" (1951) selected by W. N. Roughead
*"World Conflict" (1951) booklet
*"Songs of the South Country" (1951) selected poems

Posthumous

*"Belloc Essays" (1955) edited by Anthony Forster
*"The Verse of Hilaire Belloc" (1954) Nonesuch Press, edited W. N. Roughead
*"One Thing and Another. A Miscellany from his Uncollected Essays selected by Patrick Cahill" (1955)
*"Collected Verse" (1958)
*"Letters From Hilaire Belloc" (1958) selected by Robert Speaight
*"Advice: Hilaire Belloc's advice on wine, food and other matters" (1960)
*"Complete Verse" (1970) Duckworth
*"Belloc: A Biographical Anthology" (1970) edited by Herbert Van Thal and Jane Soames Nickerson
*"Hilaire Belloc's Prefaces" (1971) editor J. A. De Chantigny
*"Distributist Perspectives: Essays On Economics of Justice And Charity" (2004) with Herbert W. Shove, George Maxwell, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur J. Penty, H. J. Massingham, Eric Gill, and Harold Robbins
*"Cautionary Tales for Children", illustrated by Edward Gorey (2002) Harcourt, Inc.
*"The Way Out" (2006) Catholic Authors Press