- All measurements are in millimeters, usually without the abbreviation ‘mm’. Book sizes, where given, are overall height x width, not trimmed page size.
- d/w = dustwrapper (aka 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, Peakes widow
- MP = Mervyn Peake
- MPSoc = the Mervyn Peake Society
- MS = Reference to the manuscripts of MPs three Titus books, which were on loan to the Library of University College London until 2010 and have now been acquired by the British Library (Add MS 88931)
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 (A8)
- Gilmore = Maeve Gilmores memoir, A World Away. Gollancz, 1970. (F1)
- LLU = Letters from a Lost Uncle (A6)
- MP = Mr Pye (A10)
- MPMA = Mervyn Peake: the man and his art (ed. G. Peter Winnington), Peter Owen, 2006 (F14)
- MPR = The Mervyn Peake Review, published by the MPSoc 19751996, indexed on this site
- MPVA = Peter Winnington’s biography, Mervyn Peake’s Vast Alchemies. Peter Owen, 2009 (F11)
PP = Peakes Progress (A22)- P&D = Poems and Drawings (A14)
- PS = Peake Studies, indexed on this site
- RFB = Rhyme of the Flying Bomb (A13)
- RoB = A Reverie of Bone (A15a)
- RwR = Rhymes without Reason (A3a)
- Smith = Gordon Smiths memoir, Mervyn Peake. 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)
- VoH = G. Peter Winnington, The Voice of the Heart: the working of Mervyn Peake’s imagination. Liverpool U.P., 2006 (F15)
- W&D = Writings and Drawings (A19)
- Watney = John Watneys biography, Mervyn Peake. Michael Joseph, 1976 (F3)
- WI = The catalogue of the ‘Word and Image III’ Mervyn Peake exhibition at the National Book League, London, 1972 (E)
- Y = Malcolm Yorkes biography, Mervyn Peake: My Eyes Mint Gold – a life. John Murray, 2000 (F12)
© G. Peter Winnington 2011 - CLP = Craft of the Lead Pencil (A5)