1832-1850
Illustrations of the Family Psittacidae, or Parrots (1832 R Ackerman & E Lear)
[Folio volume with 42 plates, 175 copies at 10/- each]
Views in Rome and Its Environs (1841 T Maclean)
Illustrated Excursions in Italy (1846 T Maclean)
Illustrated Excursions in Italy (1846 T Maclean 2nd Series)
Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall (1846 PP)
- Edited by J E Grey. c100 copies
[A copy sold at auction in 2004 for £14.340]
A Book of Nonsense by Derry Down Derry (1846 Thomas Maclean)
- 2 vols
1851-1870
Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania (1851 R Bentley)
Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria (1852 R Bentley)
A Book of Nonsense by Derry Down Derry (1856 Maclean 2nd Ed)
- single vol edition
A Book of Nonsense (1861 Routledge 3rd Ed)
- Dalziel wood engravings 2000 copies printed
[Routledge had now bought the copyright. By 1863 it was into its 14th Edition,
and by 1889 its 27th Edition]
A Book of Nonsense (1863 Willis P Hazard, Phila)
Views in the Seven Ionian Islands (1863 E Lear)
Offered in 1996 for £3800
Journals of a Landscape Painter in Corsica (1870 Robert John Bush, London)
Offered for £215 in 1998
1871-1890
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets (1871 Robert Bush, London)
(1871 Osgood, Boston)
More Nonsense : Pictures, Rhymes, Botany (1872 Robert John Bush)
Tortoises, Terrapins and Turtles Drawn from Life (1872 Henry Southeran & Joseph Baer)
Laughable Lyrics : A 4th Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music (1877 Robert John Bush)
Offered in 1991 for £265
The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Poems (1877 Warne)
Nonsense Books (1888 Roberts Bros)
Nonsense Drolleries (1889 Warne)
- William Foster
Three Poems by Tennyson (Illustrated by Lear)
(1889 Bousson, Valadon & Co)
- 100 signed by Tennyson
1891-1900
The Owl and the Pussycat & The Duck and the Kangaroo (1892 Warne)
- William Foster
A Nonsense Birthday Book (1894 Warne)
Nonsense Songs and Stories (1895 Warne)
(1900 Warne -
L Leslie Brook)
The Pelican Chorus & Other Nonsense Verses (1900 Warne)
- L Leslie Brook
The Jumblies (1900 Warne)
- L Leslie Brook
1901-1920
The Letters of Edward Lear (1907 Fisher Unwin)
Letters to Chichester Fortescue Lord Carlingford
(1908 Duffield NY)
(1911 Fisher Unwin. 2 vols)
- edited by Lady Strachey
The Later Letters of Edward Lear (1911 Fisher Unwin)
(1911 Duffield, NY)
Queery Leary Nonsense (1911 Mills & Boon)
The Lear Coloured Bird Book for Children (1912 Mills & Boon)
A Book of Nonsense (1917 Dent Everyman)
1921-1930
Calico Pie (1924 Warne)
The Owl and the Pussycat (1924 Warne)
Facsimile of A Nonsense Alphabet (1926 Warne)
- 1000
1931-1940
The Quangle Wangle's Hat (1933 Hugh Sharp, Cupar, Fife)
- Ltd 50
Edward Lear on my Shelves (1933 Privately printed. Ltd Ed 150)
- by William B Osgood Field
The Pobble (1934 Hugh Sharp, Cupar, Fife)
- Ltd 50
Nonsense Songs and Laughable Lyrics (1935 Peter Pauper Press, US)
- 950
Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs (1938 Chatto & Windus)
Lear in Sicily (Duckworth 1938)
A Book of Lear (1939 Penguin)
Nonsense Songs (1940 Chatto & Windus, Zodiac Books)
1941-1960
Edward Lear's Nonsense Omnibus (1943 Warne)
Edward Lear's Nonsense Alphabet (1944 Collins)
- G S Sherwood
The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear (1947 Faber)
- Edited by Holbrook Jackson
The Collected Nonsense Songs of Edward Lear (1947 Grey Walls Press)
Edward Lear's Nonsense Alphabet (1949 Collins)
Edward Lear's Parrots (Duckworth 1949)
Edward Lear's Journals : A Selection (A Barker 1952)
A Nonsense Alphabet (1952 HMSO)
Teapots and Quails & Other Nonsense (1953 John Murray)
(1953 Harvard UP)
Edward Lear's Indian Journal (Jarrolds 1953)
The Quangle Wangle's Hat (1960 Heinemann)
- Helen Oxenbury
After 1961
Edward Lear in Southern Italy (1964 Kimber)
Edward Lear in Greece (1965 Kimber)
Edward Lear in Corsica (1966 Kimber)
Lear's Corfu (1965 orfu Travel)
ABC (1965 Constable Young Books)
The Pobble Who has No Toes & Other Nonsense (1968 Collins)
- Dale Maxey
The Owl and the Pussy Cat & other Nonsense (1969 Collins)
- Dale Maxey
A Letter from Edward Lear to R W Raper (1969 Tragara Press,
Edinburgh)
- 35 numbered copies
Incidents in the Life of My Uncle Arly & other Nonsense (1969 Collins)
- Dale Maxey
A Book of Nonsense (1972 Peter Owen)
- Mervyn Peake
The Birds of Edward Lear : A Selection (1975 Ariel Press)
- Edited by Adrian Thorpe. 1000
The Butcracker and the Sugar Tongs (1978 Little Brown)
- Marcia Sewall
Illustrations of the Family Psittacidae, or Parrots (1978 Pion-Johnson)
- 530
Views in the Seven Ionian Kingdoms (1979 H Broadbent)
- Reprint of 1863 Ed. 1000
Bosh and Nonsense (1982 Allen Lane)
The Jumblies (1986 Beehive Books £5.95)
- Owen Wood
Selected Letters (Ed by Vivien Noakes)
(1988 OUP)
Nonsense Poems (1995 Chronicle Books)
- Michael Hague
The Family of Parrots (1997 American Museum of Natural History $16.95)
The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense : Edited by Vivien Noakes (2001 Penguin Classics £20)
READING
(Ed)
Angus Davidson : Edward Lear - Landscape Painter & Nonsense Poet (1938 John Murray)
(Ed)
H Van Thal : Lear's Journals - A Selection (1952 Arthur Barker, London)
(Ed)
Ray Murphy : Edward Lear's Indian Journal (1953 London)
(Ed)
Lawrence Durrell : Lear's Corfu - an Anthology drown from the Painter's Letters (1965 Corfu)
Philip Hofer : Edward Lear as a Landscape Draughtsman (1967 Cambridge, Mass)
Vivien Noakes : Edward Lear - The Life of a Wanderer (1968 Collins)
Emery Kelen : Mr Nonsense - A Life of Edward Lear (1973 Macdonald & Jane's)
John Lehmann : Edward Lear and His World (1977 Thames & Hudson)
Susan Hyman : Edward Lear's Birds (1980 London)
(Ed)
Rowena Fowler : Edward Lear - The Cretan Journal (1984 Athens & Dedham)
Ruth Pitman : Edward Lear's Tennyson (1988 Manchester)
Susan Chitty : That Singular Person Called Lear (1988 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
(Ed)
Sherrard : Edward Lear, the Corfu Years (1988 Athens & Dedham)
Vivien Noakes : The Painter Edward Lear (1991 London)
Peter Levi : Edward Lear - A Biography (1995 Macmillan)
Pictures
"The Temple of Apollo at Bassae in Arcadia" (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)