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“Peake in Print”

In the early 1980s, I compiled a bibliography of Mervyn Peake’s work, in collaboration with the late Dee Berkeley, which we called “Peake in Print” – PiP for short. It was published by instalments in The Mervyn Peake Review. Ten years later, I put it on the web, and continue to update it regularly.
PiP is now commonly used by booksellers and collectors to identify the various editions and issues of Peake’s work; thus “B2a” (for example) refers to the first edition (hence the “a”) of The Hunting of the Snark, the second book that Peake illustrated (hence B2).
Please r
emember that this bibliography is copyright.
This means that you may quote from it, but you must obtain my permission to make long quotations and before making any commercial use of it. Please acknowledge this source whenever you make use of it (in a booklist, catalogue, article, dissertation, etc.); PiP represents nearly forty years of research.
For the convenience of frequent visitors, the flag indicates a page to which something has been added in recent months.

The bibliography is organized as follows:
Part A - Books by Peake, now with corresponding reviews
Part B - Books illustrated by Peake, with relevant reviews still to come
Part C - Peake’s contributions to books
  • in prose
  • in verse and
  • in the form of dustwrappers and other decorations
    Part D - Peake’s contributions to periodicals
  • in prose
  • in verse and
  • in the form of drawings and illustrations
  • Part E - Exhibitions, plays, adaptations and ephemera (with a section on musical compositions inspired by Peake)
    Part F - Monographs on Peake’s life and work
    Part G - Assessments of Peake’s work in books
    Part H - Assessments of Peake’s work in periodicals
    Part I - Dissertations and theses on Peake
    And a first-line and title index to Peake’s 200+ poems, now updated with Collected Poems.
    A list of the abbreviations used in PiP.

    I hope you find this useful – and I look forward to hearing from you!
    G. Peter Winnington

    Two British booksellers specialize in Peake’s work: visit Mike Kemp’s site, and Leslie Sklaroff’s.
    The main gallery selling drawings and paintings by Peake is Chris Beetles.

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    This page last updated December 2008.