Editing Samuel Smiles (section)

==Writings==
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===Self-help topics===
* ''[[Self-Help (Smiles book)|Self-Help]]'', 1859
* ''Character'', 1871
* ''Thrift'', 1875
* ''Duty'', 1880
* ''Life and Labour'', 1887

===Biographical works===
* ''The Life of [[George Stephenson]]'', 1857
* ''The Story of The Life of George Stephenson'', London, 1859 (abridgement of the above)
* ''Brief biographies'', Boston, 1860 (articles reprinted from periodicals such as the ''Quarterly Review'')
* ''[[Lives of the Engineers]]'', 5 vol, London 1862
**Vol 1, Early engineers&nbsp;– [[James Brindley]], [[Sir Cornelius Vermuyden]], Sir [[Hugh Myddleton]], Capt [[John Perry (engineer)|John Perry]]
**Vol 2, Harbours, Lighthouses and Bridges&nbsp;– [[John Smeaton]] and [[John Rennie the Elder|John Rennie]] (1761–1821)
**Vol 3, History of Roads&nbsp;– [[John Metcalf (civil engineer)|John Metcalf]] and [[Thomas Telford]]
**Vol 4, The Steam Engine&nbsp;– [[Boulton and Watt]]
**Vol 5, The Locomotive&nbsp;– [[George Stephenson]] and [[Robert Stephenson]]
* ''Industrial Biography'', 1863
:: Includes lives of [[Andrew Yarranton]], [[Benjamin Huntsman]], [[Dud Dudley]], [[Henry Maudslay]], [[Joseph Clement]], etc..
* Vol 4 ''[[Boulton and Watt]]'', 1865
* ''The [[Huguenots]]: Their Settlements, Churches and Industries in England and Ireland'', 1867
* ''The Huguenots in France''. 1870
* ''Lives of the Engineers'', new ed. in 5 vols, 1874
:: (includes the lives of Stephenson and Boulton and Watt)
* ''Life of a Scotch Naturalist: [[Thomas Edward (naturalist)|Thomas Edward]]'', 1875
* ''[[George Moore (philanthropist)|George Moore]], Merchant and Philanthropist'', 1878
* ''[[Robert Dick (geologist)|Robert Dick]], Baker of Thurso, Geologist and Botanist'', 1878
* ''Men of Invention and Industry'', 1884
:: [[Phineas Pett]], [[Francis Pettit Smith]], [[John Harrison]], [[John Lombe]], [[William Murdoch]], [[Friedrich Koenig|Frederick Koenig]], The Walter family of ''The Times'', [[William Clowes (Printer)|William Clowes]], [[Charles Bianconi]], and chapters on [[Industry in Ireland]], [[Shipbuilding in Belfast]], Astronomers and students in humble life
* ''[[James Nasmyth]], engineer, an autobiography'', ed. Samuel Smiles, 1885
* ''A Publisher and his Friends. Memoir and Correspondence of the Late [[John Murray (1737–1793)|John Murray]]'', 1891
* ''[[Jacques Jasmin|Jasmin]]. Barber, poet, Philanthropist'', 1891
* ''[[Josiah Wedgwood]], his Personal History'', 1894
* '' The Autobiography of Samuel Smiles, LLD'', ed. [[Thomas Mackay|T. Mackay]], 1905 – [https://books.google.com/books?id=DstIAAAAMAAJ New York edition]

The growth of industrial archaeology and history in Britain from the 1960s caused a number of these titles to be reprinted, and a number are available on the Web from such sources as [[Project Gutenberg]], noted below.