days in London, Ritchie brought out a volume entitled Head Pieces and Tail Pieces, by a Travelling Artist, 1820. He published also Tales and Confessions, 1829, and London Night Entertainments. Based in France, Ritchie produced The Game of Speculation, 1830, 2 vols. (reprinted in the "Parlour Library", No. 58, 1851), and The Romance of History, France, 1831, 3 vols.; 2nd edit. 1872. Charles Heath commissioned Ritchie to write two series of books of travels: Turner's Annual Tour, 1833–5, and Heath's Picturesque Annual, 1832–45. He visited many places abroad, and the result was twelve illustrated volumes to which he supplied the letterpress. He edited the "Library of Romance", 1833–5, in 15 vols. Ritchie was also the author of: Schinderhannes, the Robber of the Rhine, printed in the "Library of Romance", No. 2, 1833; reprinted in the "Parlour Library", No. xiii. 1848, and as a separate volume 1878. The sea-wolf, printed in the "Library of Romance", Vol. XI, 1834. The Magician, 1836, 3 vols.; reprinted in the "Parlour Novelist", 1846, and in the "Parlour Library", 1853. Beauty's Costumes, a Series of Female Figures in the Dresses of all Times, by Charles Heath, with descriptions by L. Ritchie, 1838. The Wye and its Associations: a Picturesque Ramble, 1841. A View of the Opium Trade, Historical, Moral, and Commercial, 1843. The British World in the East, 1847, 2 vols. Windsor Castle and its Environs, including Eton College; 2nd edit. 1848. Liber Fluviorum, or River Scenery of France, from Drawings by J. M. Turner, with descriptive letterpress by L. Ritchie, 1853; another edit. 1887. Wearyfoot Common, 1855. The New Shilling, 1857. Winter Evenings, 1859, 2 vols. The Midnight Journey, by L. Ritchie, and other Tales, by Mrs. Crowe and others; reprinted from Chambers's Journal, 1871. He edited Friendship's Offering, 1824, and The Poetical Works of Thomas Pringle, 1838 (2nd edit. 1839), with a sketch of Thomas Pringle's life. References Attribution External links Scottish male novelists People from Greenock 1800 births 1865 deaths Scottish magazine editors 19th-century British journalists British male journalists 19th-century Scottish novelists 19th-century British male writers 19th-century British writers