Books in the Collected Works series

This collection brings together major writings by Hobbes in English, including translations of some of his Latin works.

Intended for postgraduates and literature academics, this text comprises the collected works of William Morris. It features the poetic works, prose romances and essays on art and politics as well as Morris' translations from the classics, early English, French and Icelandic Sagas.

Herbert Spencer was regarded by the Victorians as the foremost philosopher of the age. This selection provides a cross-section of Spencer's work from his more popular and approachable essays and volumes of the Synthetic Philosophy itself.

Important in the history of the Scottish Enlightenment and Eighteenth Century literature and thought, James Beattie was a figure of high reputation and influence. This is the first ever complete edition of Beattie's works.

This 12-volume set incorporates Robertson's final corrections and revisions for the four histories and the published sermon. Also included are miscellaneous writings and speeches by Robertson, and biographical and critical works about him taken from scarce pamphlets and periodicals.

The set includes major and lesser-known works and biographical pieces by Thomas Hardy. It will appeal to both Barnes and Hardy scholars, linguists and etymologists, social and cultural historians.

Thomas Paine was an influential revolutionary pamphleteer, whose writings were instrumental in bringing about some significant political changes. This three-volume set includes his complete writings which also discusses the implications of his work.

Widely regarded as the founder of the modern science of demography, this set collects all of Petty's published writings in economics, an extensive selection of his correspondence, a biography and the most important secondary writing on his work.