All
measurements are in millimeters, usually without the abbreviation “mm”.
Book sizes, where given, are overall (not page size), height x width.
d/w
= dustwrapper (dust jacket) of hardbound book
f.p.
= facing page (used of illustrations which are not counted in the pagination of
a book or periodical; if they are counted, but no page number is printed on that
leaf, then the relevant number appears in [square brackets])
MG
= Maeve Gilmore, Peake’s widow
MP
= Mervyn Peake
MPSoc
= the Mervyn Peake Society
MS
= Reference to the manuscripts of MP’s three Titus books, in the Library
of University College London
Abbreviated
titles with the editions for reference
BN
= Book of Nonsense (A17)
CLP
= Craft of the Lead Pencil (A5)
CSDA
= Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor (A1)
Drawings
1949 = Drawings by Mervyn Peake (A7)
Drawings
1974 = Drawings of Mervyn Peake (A18)
11P
= Eleven Poems, published as MPR no 27, 1995 (A25)
G
= Gormenghast (A9d)
Gb
= The Glassblowers (A8a)
Gilmore
= Maeve Gilmore’s memoir, A World Away. London: Gollancz, 1970. (F1)
LLU = Letters
from a Lost Uncle (A6)
MP
= Mr Pye (A10)
MPR
= The Mervyn Peake Review, published by the MPSoc 1975–1996
PP = Peake’s Progress
(A22)
P&D = Poems
and Drawings (A14)
PS
= Peake Studies, Vol.2 No 4, 1992, et passim
RFB
= Rhyme of the Flying Bomb (A13)
RoB
= A Reverie of Bone (A15a)
RwR
= Rhymes without Reason (A3a)
Smith
= Gordon Smith’s memoir, Mervyn Peake. London: Gollancz, 1984 (F5)
SP = Selected
Poems (A16)
S&S
= Shapes and Sounds (A2a)
TA
= Titus Alone (A12d)
10P
= Ten Poems, published as MPR no 26, 1993 (A24)
TG
= Titus Groan (A4d)
12P
= Twelve Poems (A20)
W&D
= Writings and Drawings (A19)
Watney
= John Watney’s biography, Mervyn Peake. London: Michael Joseph, 1976
(F3)
WI
= The catalogue of the “Word and Image” Mervyn Peake exhibition at the
National Book League, London, 1972 (Part E)
Y
= Malcolm Yorke’s biography, Mervyn Peake: My Eyes Mint Gold – a life.
London: John Murray, 2000 (F12)