A Bibliography of
Edward Lear's Works




Nonsense

A Book of Nonsense, by Derry Down Derry,
London, Thomas McLean, 1846, 1855. 

A Book of Nonsense, new and enlarged edition,
London, Warne & Routledge, 1861. 

Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets,
London, Robert Bush, 1871.

More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc.,
London, Robert Bush, 1872. 

Laughable Lyrics. A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, & c.,
London, Robert Bush, 1877. 

Nonsense Songs and Stories, ed. Sir Edward Strachey,
London, Frederick Warne, 1895. 

Queery Leary Nonsense, ed. Lady Strachey,
London, Mills & Boon, 1911. 

The Lear Coloured Bird Book for Children, foreword by J. St. Loe Strachey,
London, Mills & Boon, 1912. 

The Complete Nonsense Book, ed. Lady Strachey,
New York, Duffield & Company, 1912. 

Facsimile of a Nonsense Alphabet Drawn and Written by Edward Lear,
London, Frederick Warne, 1926. 

The Lear Omnibus, ed. R.L. Mégroz,
London, T. Nelson, 1938. 

Lear in Sicily, ed. Granville Proby,
London, Duckworth, 1939?. 

The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear, ed. Holbrook Jackson,
London, Faber & Faber, 1947. 

A Nonsense Alphabet,
New York, Doubleday, 1952. 

Teapots and Quails, ed. Angus Davidson and Philip Hofer,
London, John Murray, 1953. 

A Drawing Book Alphabet,
Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard College Library, 1954. 

Lear Alphabet ABC,
New York, McGraw-Hill, 1965. 

Rhymes of Nonsense: An Alphabet,
London, Bertram Rota, 1968. 

The New Vestments, drawings by Arnold Lobel,
London, Macmillan, 1971. 

Ye Long Nite in ye Wonderfull Bedde,
Cambridge, Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1972. 

St. Kiven and the Gentle Kathleen, ed. Donald Gallup,
New Haven, 1973. 

A Book of Bosh, ed. Brian Alderson,
Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1975. 

Lear in the Original, ed Herman W. Liebert,
New York, H.P. Kraus, 1975. 

For Lovers of Birds, compiled by Vivien Noakes and Charles Lewsen,
London, Collins, 1978. 

For Lovers of Cats, compiled by Vivien Noakes and Charles Lewsen,
London, Collins, 1978. 

For Lovers of Flowers and Gardens, compiled by Vivien Noakes and Charles Lewsen,
London, Collins, 1978. 

For Lovers of Food, compiled by Vivien Noakes and Charles Lewsen,
London, Collins, 1978. 

Bosh and Nonsense,
London, Allen Lane, 1982. 

The Tragical Life and Death of Caius Marius Esq.,
New York, Justin G. Schiller, 1983. 

The Nonsense Verse of Edward Lear, illustrated by John Vernon Lord,
New York, Harmony Books, 1984. 

Nonsensus. Comparing the 1846, 1855 and 1861 printed texts of 116 Edward Lear limericks to their original manuscripts, compiled by Justin G. Schiller, with an introduction by V. Noakes,
Stroud, Catalpa Press, 1988. 

A New Nonsense Alphabet, ed. Susan Hyman,
London, Bloomsbury, 1988. 

The New Vestments, illustrated by DeLoss McGraw,
New York, Simon & Schuster, 1995. 
 

Cartoons

The Owl and the Pussycat (1956)
Halas and Batchelor ; producer, John Halas ; director, Brian Borthwick.
New York, NY : Phoenix Films, 1981. 

The owl and the pussycat ; and, Little birds
Deborah Healy.
New York, NY : Texture Films, 1980. 

The Owl and the Pussycat

filmmakers, Robin E. Crist and Teresa Drilling.
West Henrietta, NY : R.E. Crist, 1983. 


Zoological Illustrations

Illustrations of the Family of the Psittacidae, or Parrots,
London, R. Ackermann & E. Lear, 1832.

Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall, ed. E. Gray,
privately printed, 1846. 

Edward Lear and Knowsley,
Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, 1975. 

The Birds of Edward Lear. A Selection of the Twelve Finest Plates of the Artist, ed. Adrian Thorpe,
London, The Ariel Press, 1975. 

The Family of Parrots,
New York, American Museum of Natural History; San Francisco, Pomegranate Artbooks, 1997.


Journals and Travel

Views in Rome and Its Environs,
London, Thomas McLean, 1841. 

Illustrated Excursions in Italy,
London, Thomas McLean, 1846. 

Journals of a Landscape Painter in Greece and Albania, & c.,
London, Richard Bentley, 1851. 

Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria, & c.,
London, Richard Bentley, 1852. 

Views in the Seven Ionian Isles,
London, privately printed, 1863. 

Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica,
London, Robert Bush, 1870. 

Journals: A Selection, ed. H. van Tal,
London, Arthur Barker, 1952. 

Indian Journal, ed. Ray Murphy,
London, Jarrolds, 1953. 

Edward Lear in Southern Italy, introduction by Peter Quennell,
London, William Kimber, 1964. 

Edward Lear in Greece, introduction by Peter Quennell,
London, William Kimber, 1965. 

Lear's Corfu, introduction by Lawrence Durrell,
Corfy, Corfu Travel, 1965 

Edward Lear in Corsica, introduction by Peter Quennell,
London, William Kimber, 1966. 

The Cretan Journal, edited by Rowena Fowler,
Athens, Denise Harvey & Company, 1984. 

Edward Lear in the Levant. Travels in Albania, Greece and Turkey in Europe, 1848-1849, compiled and edited by Susan Hyman,
London, John Murray, 1988. 

Letters

Letters of Edward Lear, ed. Lady Strachey,
London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1907. 

Later Letters of Edward Lear, ed. Lady Strachey,
London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1911. 

Selected Letters, ed. Vivien Noakes,
Oxford, Oford University Press, 1988. 


Tennyson Music and Illustrations

Poems and Songs by Alfred Tennyson, set to music and inscribed to Mrs Alfred Tennyson by Edward Lear,
London, Cramer, Beale & Co., 1853.
Includes four settings: 'Edward Gray', 'A Farewell', 'Tears, Idle Tears', and 'Sweet and Low'.

Poems and Songs by Alfred Tennyson, set to music and inscribed to Mrs Alfred Tennyson by Edward Lear,
London, Cramer, Beale & Co., 1859.
Reprints the first four settings and adds five new ones: 'Home They Brought her Warrior Dead', As through the Land at Eve We Went', 'Come Not When I am Dead', 'O Let the Solid Ground not Fail', and 'The Time Draws Near'. 

Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Illustrated by Edward Lear,
Boussod, Valadon & Co., 1889. 

Edward Lear's Tennyson, with and Introduction and commentary by Ruth Pitman,
Manchester-New York, Carcanet, 1988. 

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