Saints & Hagiography
The hagiography shelf
Public-domain lives of the saints, each with its edition, imprint, and rights evidence.
- The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints: January, February, March — Alban Butler (1710/11-1773); Kenedy 'complete and unabridged' edition, vol. 1 of 12 (Jan-Mar)
- The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Vol. VII: July — Alban Butler; Kenedy edition, vol. VII (July)
- The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints (12 vols.) — Alban Butler; London: J. Murphy, 1812-13 edition; IA has vols 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12 under these identifiers (3, 7, 8, 9 not found in this search)
- The Lives of the Saints, Volume 1 (of 16): January — Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924); New edition in 16 volumes
- The Lives of the Saints, Volume 2 (of 16): February — Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924); New edition in 16 volumes
- The Lives of the Saints, Volume 3 (of 16): March — Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924); New edition in 16 volumes
- The Lives of the Saints (1897 Nimmo, further volumes) — Sabine Baring-Gould; London: John C. Nimmo 1897-98 new edition; IA vols 5, 6, 10, 13, 14 located (also TheLivesOfTheSaintsV06)
- The Golden Legend, or Lives of the Saints, as Englished by William Caxton (7 vols.) — Jacobus de Voragine (c. 1230-1298); Temple Classics, ed. F. S. Ellis, 7 vols (Caxton's 1483 English, modernized)
- The Roman Martyrology — Catholic Church; tr. under Abp (later Card.) James Gibbons; English translation of the 1845 Rome edition (Gregory XVI); 'Translated from the Latin, with an introduction by the Most Rev. Archbishop of Baltimore'
- The Book of Saints: A Dictionary of Servants of God Canonized by the Catholic Church — Benedictine Monks of St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate (compilers); 1st edition
- A Dictionary of Saintly Women (2 vols.) — Agnes B. C. Dunbar; 1st edition, vol. 1 (A-L) 1904, vol. 2 (M-Z) 1905
- The Catholic Encyclopedia (1907-1913): saint entries — ed. Charles G. Herbermann et al.; 1907-1914 Robert Appleton / Encyclopedia Press edition
- Pictorial Lives of the Saints — John Gilmary Shea (ed.), from Butler; enlarged 1887 printing 'with ... the Lives of the New Saints Canonized in 1881'
- The New Catholic Dictionary — ed. Conde B. Pallen and John J. Wynne, S.J.; 1st edition
- The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi — Anonymous (Fioretti); tr. Abby Langdon Alger; Alger translation
- Life of St. Francis of Assisi — Paul Sabatier (1858-1928); tr. Louise Seymour Houghton; English tr. of the 1894 Vie de S. François
- The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi — Candide Chalippe, O.F.M. (1684-1757); ed. Hilarion Duerk; revised edition of the 1852 Oratorian translation
- The Legends of Saint Patrick — Aubrey de Vere (1814-1902); Cassell's National Library, intro. Henry Morley
- The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick — ed. James O'Leary; 5th edition, includes Jocelin's Life and the Confession and Letter to Coroticus
- The Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin Catherine of Siena — Catherine of Siena; tr. Algar Thorold; new and abridged edition
- Virgin Saints and Martyrs — Sabine Baring-Gould; illustrated by F. Anger
- A Child's Book of Saints — William Canton (1845-1926); Everyman/Dent reissue, ill. T. H. Robinson
- Sacred and Legendary Art (2 vols.) — Anna Jameson (1794-1860); 6th edition (vol. 1)
- Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts — Anna Jameson; corrected and enlarged edition
- Legends of the Monastic Orders as Represented in the Fine Arts — Anna Jameson; London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1863 (IA metadata)
- The Legends of the Saints: An Introduction to Hagiography — Hippolyte Delehaye, S.J. (1859-1941), Bollandist; tr. V. M. Crawford; Westminster Library English translation
- The Holy Angels — R. O'Kennedy; 1st
- The Crown of Sorrow — Alban Goodier, S.J. (1869-1939); this scan is the 3rd impression (1927) of the 1918 first edition
- Meditations for Every Day in the Month — Francois Nepveu, S.J. (1639-1708); tr. F. A. Ryan; translated from the 'Reflexions chretiennes'
- The Mass — Peter C. Yorke (1864-1925); 1st
- Fabiola; or, The Church of the Catacombs — Nicholas Wiseman (1802-1865); Benziger illustrated popular edition, intro. R. Brennan (novel)