Henry Gardiner Adams

Life

Edited works

• The Kentish Coronal. Adams contacted Charles Dickens in 1840 about contributing to a Kentish journal, but Dickens declined. Arthur Brook did contribute.
• Flowers; their moral, language, and poetry
• The Peace Reading-book
• The Language and Poetry of Flowers. This anthology was Christian in tone, and aimed at a female audience.
• A Cyclopædia of Poetical Quotations
• A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations
• God's Image in Ebony: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches, Facts, Anecdotes, Etc., Demonstrative of the Mental Powers and Intellectual Capacities of the Negro Race, by Frederick William Chesson and Wilson Armistead
• A Cyclopædia of Female Biography, revised edition, with Sarah Josepha Buell Hale

  Natural history

• Favorite Song Birds
• Cage and Chamber Birds, translated and expanded from the German, and including British Warblers by Robert Sweet
• Nests and Eggs of Familiar British Birds
• Beautiful Butterflies; the British species described and illustrated
• Beautiful Shells
• Humming Birds Described and Illustrated
• The Sea-side Lesson Book
• The Wild Flowers, Birds and Insects of the Months
• The Smaller British Birds, with Henry B. Adams.

  Other works

• A Story of the Seasons
• Peace Lyrics dedicated to Elihu Burritt
• An Historical and Descriptive Account of Rochester Bridge
• The Weaver Boy who Became a Missionary: Being the Story of the Life and Labors of David Livingstone