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
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
Date uncertain:
With Baton and Bow, A Musical Pierage by John Morava [John Atkinson; visits Delius c. 1930 pp.24-5], n.d.