Books
- A History of the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1889 (reissued by the publisher, 2009, ISBN 978-1-108-00207-3)
- A Short Account of the History of Mathematics at Project Gutenberg (1st ed. 1888 and later editions)
- Mathematical Recreations and Essays at Project Gutenberg (1st ed. 1892; later editions with H.S.M. Coxeter)
- A History of the First Trinity Boat Club (1908)
- String Figures; Cambridge, W. Heffer & Sons (1st ed. 1920, 2nd ed. 1921, 3rd ed. 1929, reprinted with supplements as Fun with String Figures by Dover Publications, 1971, ISBN 0-486-22809-6)
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