Author:William Davenport Adams

Works

 * A Dictionary of English Literature; Being a Comprehensive Guide to English Authors and their Works (1877)
 * By-Ways in Book-Land; Short Essays on Literary Subjects (1888)
 * Rambles in Book-Land; Short Essays On Literary Subjects (1889)
 * With Poet and Player; Essays on Literature and the Stage (1891)
 * Artistic London (1892)
 * A Dictionary of the Drama. A guide to the plays, playwrights, players, and playhouses of the United Kingdom and America, from the earliest times to the present. Volume 1. A-G (1904)

As editor

 * The revolutionary epick, and other poems (1904), by Benjamin Disraeli

As compiler

 * Lyrics of Love, from Shakespeare to Tennyson (1874)
 * Famous books; sketches in the highways and byeways of English literature (1875)
 * The golden book of English song; containing choice selections from the principal poets of the present century (1875)
 * The Comic Poets of the Nineteenth Century. Poems ... by living writers (1875)
 * English epigrams, selected and arranged with introduction, notes, and notices of the epigrammatists (1878)
 * Latter-Day Lyrics, being poems of sentiment and reflection by living writers (1878)
 * Songs of Society, from Anne to Victoria. (1880)
 * The witty and humorous side of the English poets; with a variety of specimens arranged in periods (1880)
 * Quips and Quiddities (1881)
 * The Treasury of Modern Anecdote, being a selection from the witty and humorous sayings of the last hundred years (1881)
 * Songs from the novelists; from Elizabeth to Victoria (1885)
 * A Book of Burlesque, Sketches of English Stage Travestie and Parody (1891)