The Works of Aurelius Augustine, Bishop of Hippo

The Works of Aurelius Augustine, Bishop of Hippo: A New Translation — the first attempt to put the whole of Augustine into English, edited by Marcus Dods and issued by T. & T. Clark of Edinburgh between 1871 and 1876. It belongs to the same Edinburgh enterprise as the Ante-Nicene Christian Library: a stable of Scottish scholars Englishing the Fathers for a Victorian readership, with Dods — later Principal of New College, Edinburgh — as general editor. Fifteen volumes appeared; a sixteenth, a life of Augustine promised from Principal Robert Rainy, was never written. The set was ordered by the pace of its translators rather than any logic of contents, which is why the Confessions, finished last by J. G. Pilkington, stands near the end as volume XIV, and why Peter Holmes’s Anti-Pelagian Works are spread across volumes IV, XII, and XV. Its translations proved durable: a decade later Philip Schaff took them over, lightly revised, for the first series of his Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers — Dods on the City of God, Pilkington on the Confessions, Haddan on the Trinity — which is how most readers have met them since. The Edinburgh title pages name London, Dublin, and New York houses too, but only as distribution agents; copies under the Scribner’s imprint are the authorized American issue. Years for volumes I–XII are approximate first-edition dates — later impressions exist.

1. 1.Internet Archive — The Works of Aurelius Augustine (T. & T. Clark)
2. 2.Wikipedia — Marcus Dods, general editor of the set