The Works of William Hazlitt

Waldstein: 1805.

Waldstein: 1807-10.

Waldstein: 1817-01. 1st collection of essays. 2 vols. 52 essays, 40 by WH and 12 by Leigh Hunt.

Waldstein: 1817-05, 1st edn.; 1818, 2nd edn., slightly revised.

Waldstein: 1818.

Waldstein: 1818. Lectures delivered in Jan, book published no later than May.

Waldstein: 1819-04. Lectures delived between Nov 1818 and Jan 1819.

Waldstein: 1819.

Waldstein: 1820. Lectures delivered in Jan 1820, book published immediately after that.

Waldstein: 1821-04-06 and 1822-06-15. 2nd collection of essays. 2 vols. 16+17 essays.

Waldstein: 1823. Presumably WH's only work of fiction, though nobody was ever fooled. It is thinly disguised account of his disastrous affair with one Sarah Walker.

Waldstein: 1824.

Waldstein: 1825. An incisive and entertaining collection of contemporary portraits, another collection of essays really. Sometimes considered WH's greatest book by people, to borrow a phrase from the subject of this list, "more nice than wise".

Waldstein: 1826-05. 3rd collection of essays. 2 vols. 17+15 essays.

Waldstein: 1826-05. WH's one and only travel book. First serialised in the Morning Chronicle, 14 Sep 1824 - 16 Nov 1825.

Waldstein: 1830.

Waldstein: 1828, vols. 1 & 2; 1830, vols. 3 & 4 (published posthumously). WH's masterpiece according to his own opinion, but few would agree today.

Waldstein: 1836, ed. WH's son. 22 essays, 11 previously unpublished and 11 previously uncollected. Some omissions and variations by the editor.

Waldstein: 1839, ed. WH's son. 18 essays, all previously published, none previously collected. Some omissions and variations by the editor.

Waldstein: 1844, ed. WH's son. 18 essays, 8 of them previously uncollected.

Waldstein: 1850, ed. WH's son. 17 essays, all previously published: 6 previously uncollected; 6 reprinted from #18; 5 collected during WH's lifetime. Some omissions and variations by the editor.

Waldstein: 1889, ed. Alexander Ireland.

Waldstein: 1902-04, eds. A. R. Waller & Arnold Glover. 12 vols. (13 if one counts the Index published in 1906.) Reprints #1-16 from book editions during WH's lifetime, corrects many liberties in #17-20. ToC.

Waldstein: 1917, ed. George Sampson. Superb introduction and extensive notes by the editor.

Waldstein: 1918. Less lavishly introduced and annotated than #24, but an excellent selection.

Waldstein: 1930, ed. Geoffrey Keynes. Comprehensive and thematically organised selection, for many years popular. Fine introduction by the editor. No notes whatsoever, though.

Waldstein: 1970, ed. Ronald Blythe. Penguin English Library, later Penguin Classics. Not to be mistaken with the identically titled Oxford World's Classics volume (#27).

Waldstein: 1991, ed. Jon Cook. Useless introduction, promiscuous selection (with many pieces abridged), but helpful notes.

Waldstein: 1998. 9 vols. Excellent scholarly edition of Hazlitt's finest works, edited by the foremost Hazlitt scholar of our time but very expensive. Liber Amoris should not have been included, but never mind. Everything else is top-notch Hazlitt.

Waldstein: 2000, eds. Tom Paulin and David Chandler. More comprehensive selection than #28. Useful notes.

Waldstein: 2021, eds. Jon Mee and James Grande. Fine selection of 35 essays, most of them well-known but with some genuine and very pleasant surprises. Original versions in periodicals were preferred as copy texts. The Notes and the Introduction could have been more incisive and perceptive, though.