Titles
This list of titles is far from being a definitive list of Rolt’s output. For a bibliography available to buy that includes everything written by Rolt, and much that has been written about him, see Bibliography.
| Date | Title | Original publisher | Category |
| 1944 | Narrow Boat | Eyre & Spottiswoode | Waterways |
| 1947 | High Horse Riderless | Allen & Unwin | Philosophy |
| 1948 | Sleep No More: Twelve Stories of the Supernatural | Constable | Fiction |
| 1949 | Green and Silver | Allen & Unwin | Waterways |
| 1949 | Worcestershire | Hale | Topography |
| 1950 | The Inland Waterways of England | Allen & Unwin | Waterways |
| 1950 | Horseless Carriage: The Motor Car in England | Constable | Motoring |
| 1951 | The Thames from Mouth to Source | Batsford | Waterways |
| 1952 | Lines of Character | Constable | Railways |
| 1953 | Railway Adventure | Constable | Railways |
| 1953 | Winterstoke: The Story of a Town | Constable | Fiction |
| 1955 | Clouded Mirror | J Lane | Philosophy |
| 1955 | Red for Danger | J Lane | Railways |
| 1956 | A Picture History of Motoring | Hulton Press | Motoring |
| 1957 | Brunel | Longmans | Biography |
| 1958 | Thomas Telford | Longmans | Biography |
| 1960 | The Cornish Giant: The Story of Richard Trevithick | Lutterworth | Biography |
| 1960 | George and Robert Stephenson | Longmans | Biography |
| 1962 | Great Engineers | Bell | Biography |
| 1962 | James Watt | Batsford | Biography |
| 1963 | Thomas Newcomen: The Prehistory of Steam | David & Charles / Macdonald | Biography |
| 1964 | Patrick Stirling's Locomotives | Hamish Hamilton | Railways |
| 1965 | The Story of Brunel | Methuen | Biography |
| 1965 | Tools for the Job: A Short History of Machine Tools | Batsford | Engineering History |
| 1967 | The Aeronauts | Methuen | Transport |
| 1969 | Navigable Waterways (Industrial Archaeology No 1 in series) | Longmans | Waterways |
| 1970 | Victorian Engineering | Allen Lane | Engineering History |
| 1971 | The Making of a Railway (photographed by SWA Newton) | Evelyn | Railways |
| 1971 | Landscape with Machines (autobiography) | Longmans | Autobiography |
| 1973 | From Sea to Sea: The Canal du Midi | Longmans | Waterways |
| 1977 | Landscape with Canals (second volume of autobiography) | Alan Sutton | |
| 1992 | Landscape with Figures (third and final volume of autobiography) | Alan Sutton | Autobiography |
