Publications

Anne was a prolific author, especially when one considers that all her books were illustrated by numerous plates: paintings, mostly reproduced by colour lithography. A bibliography is rendered difficult by the fact that many of the books were not dated, and often ran to several editions, some published after her death. The main sources are:

• A list of books in possession of Sidney Michael Young senior (1871-1955), which he inherited from his father Sidney Young (1843-1914), nephew of Anne, and subsequently gave to the Lindley Library of the Royal Horticultural Society.
• A list which Bernard Kettle, the Guildhall Librarian, compiled in 1913 at the request of Sidney, and which was published in his latter's family history.
• The Lindley Library of the Royal Horticultural Society, London.  See Online Catalogue

All books, including those published anonymously, are single-authored by Anne Pratt except #30.

1. Flowers and their associations. Charles Knight, 1840, 2nd edition 1846 as Knight's Weekly Volume No. 100.
2. Dawnings of genius: or, the early lives of some eminent persons of the last century. [Anon] Charles Knight, 1841. [Sir Humphrey Davy, Rev. George Crabbe, Baron Cuvier, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Lindley Murray, Sir James Mackintosh and Dr Adam Clarke.]
3. Plants. Religious Tract Society, undated [1841].
4. The pictorial catechism of botany. Suttaby, 1842, two editions.
5. The excellent woman, as described in the Book of Proverbs. [Anon.] The Religious Tract Society, 1846.
6. Wild flowers of the year. [Anon.] The Religious Tract Society Society, 1846.
7. The garden flowers of the year. [Anon.] The Religious Tract Society, 1847.
8. Ocean flowers and their teachings. “By the author of “Wild flowers and their teachings”. Binns and Goodwin, 1847.
9. Wild flowers and their teachings. Binns and Goodwin, Bath, 2^nd edition 1848. [Illustrated with real pressed flowers!]
10. The language of flowers, and alphabet of floral emblems. Noble, 1849.
11. The plants and trees of scripture. Religious Tract Society, undated [1849], 2nd edition 1851.
    
12. Chapters on common things of the sea-side. S.P.C.K. (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge) 1850. 2^nd edition 1853, title changed to, “...of the sea-coast”. [Includes plants, seaweeds, mollluscs; illustrations are uncoloured.]
13. Nature's wonders; or, God's care over all his works. Religious Tract Society, 1850.
14. Plants and trees of scripture. 1851
15. Wild flowers, 2 volumes. S.P.C.K. 1852-3. Issued in monthly parts in 1851-52. 2^nd edition 1857. 3^rd edition with indexes by the Reverend G. E. Warburton, 2 volumes, S.P.C.K. 1905, 2^nd edition 1922.
16. The green fields and their grasses. S.P.CK. 1852 [1854?] 2^nd edition 1856.
17. Our native songsters. S.P.C.K. 1852. 2^nd edition 1853. 3^rd edition 1880[?].
18. The flowering plants, grasses, sedges and ferns of Great Britain. 4 volumes. S.P.C.K. undated [1854-57?]. 6 editions, some in 5 or 6 volumes, one (undated) published by Frederick Warne. The last, revised by Edward Step, Frederick Warne 1891 [“The Step edition”]
19. The ferns of Great Britain. S.P.C.K. Undated [1855]. [The second part of the last volume of No. 13, published separately.] 4 editions. [See Pratt v. Sowerby ***LINK***]
20. The poisonous, noxious and suspected plants of our fields and woods. S.P.C.K. 1857. 2 editions.
21. The natural history of British grasses and sedges. 1859. 3 editions.
22. The grasses, sedges and ferns of Great Britain. S.P.C.K. Undated. [The last volume of No. 13, published separately.]
23. The British grasses and sedges. S.P.C.K. Undated [1859]. [The first part of the last volume of No. 13, published separately.]
24. The geography of plants. Religious Tract Society, undated [185-?]
25. A book for the sea-side. Religious Tract Society, undated [185-?]
26. Haunts of the wild flowers. Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1863. 2^nd edition 1866. 4 editions.
27. By daylight: or pictures from real life. 1865. [A translation from the German of Ottilie Wildermuth's Im Tageslicht: Bilder aus der Wirklichkeit.]
28. Beauties and wonders of vegetable life. Religious Tract Society 1866.
29. The wanderer. S.P.C.K. [1871].
30. The language of flowers, the associations of flowers, popular tales of flowers. Anne Pratt and Thomas Miller. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton Kent, undated, pre-1874.
31. The illustrated girl's own treasury specially designed for the entertainment of girls and the development of the best faculties of the female mind..... Undated.
32. My pet dormouse. Warne, undated.