Author:William Henry Davenport Adams

William Henry Davenport Adams
(1828–1891)

Works

• History, Topography, and Antiquities of the Isle of Wight 1856 and 1884.
• Memorable Battles in English History 1862, 1868, and 1878.
• Famous Regiments 1864.
• Famous Ships of the British Navy 1868.
• Lighthouses and Lightships 1870, 1876.
• The Arctic World: its Plants, Animals, and Natural Phenomena 1876.
• The Bird World 1877.
• English Party Leaders 2 vols. 1878.
• The Merry Monarch 1885.
• England on the Sea 2 vols. 1885.
• England at War 2 vols. 1886.
• Good Queen Anne 1886.
• A Concordance to the Plays of Shakespeare 1886.
• Witch, Warlock, and Magician 1889.
• Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century, Sonnenschein, 1883. (HathiTrust) (external scan)
  • Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century, Sonnenschein, 8th ed., 1903. (HathiTrust)
  • Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century, Dutton, 1903. (HathiTrust) (external scan)
    • Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century, Project Gutenberg, 2010.

Works about Adams

• "Adams, William Henry Davenport," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.
• "Adams, William Henry Davenport," in Men of the Time (eleventh edition), by Thompson Cooper, London: George Routledge and Sons (1884)