1907
Monographien Moderner Musiker, C F Kahnt Nachfolger, Leipzig 1907 [in Vol. II: ‘Frederick Delius’ by Max Chop]
1922
Our Favourite Musicians, from Stanford to Holbrooke by Sidney Grew, Edinburgh Press 1922 [Ch. V: ‘Frederick Delius’ pp.109-32]
1924
A Survey of Contemporary Music by Cecil Gray, OUP 1924 [chapter on Delius, pp.58-77]
A Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians [entry ‘Frederick Delius’ by Philip Heseltine], ed. A Eaglefield Hull, Dent 1924, pp.116-7; reprinted in Delius Society Journal 94 Autumn 1987 Heseltine issue, pp.30-1; in The Occasional Writings of Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock) vol. 4, ed. Barry Smith, Thames Publishing 1999, pp.59-61
1925
XXIII A Musical Novel by Frederick Delius [Fennimore and Gerda]’, in Stepchildren of Music by Eric Blom, Foulis & Co c. 1925
Contemporary British Composers by Joseph Holbrooke, Cecil Palmer 1925 [chapter on Delius pp.147-61, with portrait and two facsimiles of musical examples]
1934
Peter Warlock by Cecil Gray (with contributions by Sir Richard Terry and Robert Nichols and a Foreword by Augustus John), Jonathan Cape 1934; reissued 1938
My 70 Years’ Musical Memories (1860-1930) by Samuel Midgley, Novello n.d. [1934]
1935
Beecham and Pharaoh by Ethel Smyth, Chapman and Hall 1935
1938
My Life of Music by Sir Henry Wood, Gollancz 1938
1943
A Mingled Chime by Sir Thomas Beecham, Putnam’s Sons, New York 1943; reprinted as A Mingled Chime: Leaves from an autobiography, Hutchinson 1944; 1979
1944
Music in the Five Towns 1840-1914 by Reginald Nettel, OUP 1944 [Ch. XIII: Delius pp.98-106]
1945
Norman O’Neill: A Life of Music by Derek Hudson, Quality Press 1945; new edition ed. Katherine Hudson and Stephen Lloyd, EM Publishing 2015
Ten Composers by Neville Cardus, Cape 1945; revised as A Composer’s Eleven, Cape 1958
1946
Frederick Delius by Ralph Hill, in British Music of Our Time ed. A L Bacharach, Pelican 1946 pp.30-43; new edition 1951 pp.30-43
Music on Record by F W Gaisberg, Robert Hale 1946 (description of Elgar and Gaisberg’s visit to Delius in 1933, pp.240-1)
1947
Portraits with Backgrounds by Catherine Barjansky in collaboration with Elinore Denniston, Macmillan (New York) 1947, Geoffrey Bles (London) 1948 [Ch. 10: ‘A Late Lark Singing’; Ch. 11: ‘Only One Happiness’]
1948
Musical Chairs or Between Two Stools. Being the Life and Memoirs of Cecil Gray, Home and Van Thal 1948; new edition with ‘new afterword by Pauline Gray’, Hogarth Press 1985 (certain pages reprinted in A Delius Companion ed. Christopher Redwood, Calder 1976 pp.135-45)
1951
Overture and Beginners by Sir Eugene Goossens, Methuen 1951
1952
The Music Masters ed. A L Bacharach [in Vol. 3 Ch. 13: ‘Frederick Delius’ by Christopher Grier], Cassell 1952; Pelican 1958 pp.102-13
Musical Trends in the 20th Century by Norman Demuth, Rockliff 1952
Frederick Delius by Arthur Hutchings, in The Concerto ed. Ralph Hill, Pelican 1952 pp.261-275
1953
Suite in Four Movements – An Autobiography by Eric Coates (on Delius as conductor, p.148), Heinemann 1953
1956
‘Real Life Adventurers: Frederick Delius’ [his life in a strip cartoon], Eagle Annual no 5, Hulton Press 1956, p.47
From the World of Music. Ernest Newman. Essays from ‘The Sunday Times selected by Felix Aprahamian, Calder 1956
1962
Am I too loud ?: The memoirs of a piano accompanist by Gerald Moore, Hamish Hamilton 1962; Penguin 1966
Man and his Music (section on ‘Delius, Sibelius and Nature’ p.923, Barrie and Rockliff 1962
1963
Sons of the Generous Earth by Philip Oyler, Hodder and Stoughton 1963; The Country Book Club 1964 [Ch. IV: ‘Some Memories of Delius’]
1966
The English Musical Renaissance by Frank Howes, Secker & Warburg 1966
1967
The Other Florida by Gloria Jahoda, Scribner 1967
1968
Trumpets over the Sea – being a rambling and egotistical account of the London Symphony Orchestra’s engagement at Daytona Beach, Florida in July-August 1967 by J B Priestley, Heinemann 1968 [visit to Solano Grove pp.90-94]
1969
Sidelights on a Century of Music 1825-1924 by Gervase Hughes, Macdonald 1969 [Ch. 7: ‘Delius’s piano concerto’ pp.39-44]
1970
Seven Ages: An autobiography 1888-1927 (first of two vols.) by Basil Dean, Hutchinson 1970 [1923 London production of Hassan: pp.145-6, 172-3 & 181-90 with 4 plates]; see also Basil Dean’s Introduction to Hassan by James Elroy Flecker – An acting edition prepared and introduced by Basil Dean, Heinemann 1951, xi-xxii
1972
Granville Bantock – a personal portrait by Myrrha Bantock, Dent 1972
1973
Sir Thomas Beecham conductor and impresario – as remembered by his friends and colleagues compiled and edited by H Procter-Gregg, Westmorland Gazette 1973; revised as Beecham Remembered, Duckworth 1976
1974
My Viola and I – A Complete Autobiography by Lionel Tertis, Paul Elek 1974; paperback Kahn & Averill 1991
A Peter Warlock Handbook Volume 1 compiled by Fred Tomlinson, Triad Press 1974
1976
Warlock and Delius by Fred Tomlinson, Thames Publishing 1976 31pp.
Percy Grainger by John Bird, Elek 1976; Faber Paperbacks 1982, revised Oxford University Press 1999
1977
A Peter Warlock Handbook Volume 2 compiled by Fred Tomlinson, Triad Press 1977
1979
The Music of Peter Warlock: A Critical Survey by I A Copley, Dennis Dobson 1979
The English Musical Renaissance by Peter J Pirie, Gollancz 1979
1981
The Percy Grainger Companion ed. Lewis Foreman [Ch. 4: ‘Impulsive Friend: Grainger and Delius’ by Lionel Carley], Thames Publishing 1981 pp.31-50
1982
An Elgar Companion ed. Christopher Redwood [VI/3: ‘Elgar and Delius’by C Redwood], Sequoia 1982
Deryck Cooke: Vindications — Essays on Romantic Music ed. David Matthews, Faber 1982
(includes ‘Delius: A Centenary Evaluation’ from The Listener 25 January 1962 and ‘Delius and Form: A Vindication’ from The Musical Times June and July 1962)
see also ‘The Deryck Cooke Delius Bibliography’ compiled by Mark Doran,
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Departments/Music/Cooke/Deliusbib.html
Grainger’s Collection of Music by Other Composers by Phil Clifford, Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne Catalogue 2, Percy Grainger Music Collection Part Two, University of Melbourne 1982
1984
H Balfour Gardiner by Stephen Lloyd, OUP 1984; paperback edition 2005
1985
My Orchestras and Other Adventures – The Memoirs of Boyd Neel, University of Toronto Press 1985
The Cello and the Nightingales: The Autobiography of Beatrice Harrison ed. Patricia Cleveland-Peck, John Murray 1985
The Farthest North of Humanness: Letters of Percy Grainger 1901-1914 ed. Kay Dreyfus, Macmillan 1985
Sensibility and English Song: Critical studies of the early twentieth century (2 vols.) by Stephen Banfield, CUP 1985; paperback 1988
J P Jacobsens spor i ord, billeder og toner ed. F J Billeskov Jansen, Copenhagen 1985, [twelve essays – ‘J P Jacobsen and Music’ by John Bergsagel, pp.285-313]
1986
Havergal Brian on Music – Vol. One: British Music, ed. Malcolm MacDonald, Toccata Press 1986 (includes ‘The Art of Frederick Delius’ [Musical Opinion, March-October 1924; condensed version], ‘The Delius Festival’ [Musical Opinion, Nov. & Dec. 1929], ‘[Delius’ Personality]’ [Musical Opinion, Nov. 1929], ‘The Passing of Delius’ [Musical Opinion, July 1934], ‘Delius in Decline’ (review of Fenby, Delius as I Knew Him) [Musical Opinion, Dec. 1936], ‘Delius: The Last Phase’ [Musical Opinion, December 1936])
Spring Returning – a selection from the works of James Farrar, made and introduced by Christopher Palmer,Thames Publishing 1986
Pursued by a Bear: An autobiography by David Howarth, Collins 1986 [Ch. 4: The BBC]; also ‘The Last Summer’, Harper’s Magazine 223 no. 1338 November 1961 pp.89-93
1987
From Parry to Britten – British Music in Letters 1900-1945 by Lewis Foreman, Batsford 1987
1989
C W Orr – the unknown song-composer by Jane Wilson, Thames Publishing 1989 [including as Appendix A the complete correspondence of 14 letters from Delius to Orr 1916-1921]
1992
Capriol for Mother: A Memoir of Peter Warlock by Nigel Heseltine, Thames Publishing 1992
1993
The English Musical Renaissance 1860-1940: Construction and Destruction by Robert Stradling and Meirion Hughes, Routledge 1993
Delius, Bridge & Somerville by Michael Pilkington (English Solo Song Guides to the repertoire – 3), Thames Publishing 1993
1994
The All-Round Man: Selected Letters of Percy Grainger 1914-1961 eds. Malcolm Gillies and David Pear, Clarendon Press 1994
Peter Warlock: The Life of Philip Heseltine by Barry Smith, OUP 1994
1996
Peter Warlock the Composer by Brian Collins, Scolar Press 1996
Violet – The Life and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse by Jessica Douglas-Home, Harvill Press 1996
1997
The Occasional Writings of Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock) (4 vols.) edited and introduced by Barry Smith, Thames Publishing 1997-1999
1998
Albert Sammons, violinist – the life of ‘Our Albert’ by Eric Wetherell, Thames Publishing 1998
1999
Nothing So Charming As Musick! – the life and times of Frederic Austin, singer, composer, teacher by Martin Lee-Browne, Thames Publishing 1999
Grainger on Music eds. Malcolm Gillies and Bruce Clunies Ross, OUP 1999
‘An English Composer at the Heart of Nordic Culture: Frederick Delius and his Friends’ by Lionel Carley, in Nordic Letters 1870-1910 eds. Michael Robinson and Janet Garton, Norvik Press 1999 pp.376-97
New World Symphonies by Jack Sullivan, Yale University Press 1999
2000
Frederick Delius and Peter Warlock: A Friendship Revealed ed. by Barry Smith, OUP 2000
2002
Roger Quilter – His Life and Music by Valerie Langfield, Boydell Press 2002
2003
Putting Poetry First. A Life of Robert Nichols 1893-1944 by Anne & William Charlton, Michael Russell 2003
2004
Delius & Fenby: A Photographic Journey by Lyndon Jenkins and Paul Guinery, The Delius Society 2004
2005
The Collected Letters of Peter Warlock [4 volumes] ed. Barry Smith, Boydell 2005
Parry to Finzi: Twenty English Song-Composers by Trevor Hold, Boydell 2005
2006
Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger eds. Malcolm Gillies, David Pear and Mark Carroll, OUP 2006
2008
Thomas Beecham: an obsession with music by John Lucas, Boydell 2008
2009
Song in Gold Pavilions – Ronald Stevenson on Music, ed. Chris Walton, Sun Press, 2009 (Frederick Delius and the Wisdom of Life; Delius’s source)
2010
Les Colonies artistiques de Grez-sur-Loing 1860-1914, ed. Claire Leray, Artistes du Bout du Monde, Grez-sur-Loing, 2010
2013
Hamilton Harty – Musical Polymath by Jeremy Dibble, Boydell 2013
2014
Constant Lambert: Beyond The Rio Grande by Stephen Lloyd, Boydell 2014
2015
Felix Aprahamian: Diaries and Selected Writings on Music edited by Lewis and Susan Foreman, Boydell 2015
2020
The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer by Frances Jones, Vernon Press, US (reference pp.255-6 to the horns in the Mass of Life, Introduction to Part 2)
Date uncertain:
With Baton and Bow, A Musical Pierage by John Morava [John Atkinson; visits Delius c. 1930 pp.24-5], n.d.