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The standard edition of the works of Beddoes is The Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1935), edited by H.W. Donner and published by Oxford University Press.

Outstanding editions of Death’s Jest-Book, Beddoes’s major drama, have appeared in recent years: Death’s Jest-Book: The 1829 Text (2003), edited by Michael Bradshaw and published by Routledge, and Death’s Jest-Book or The Day Will Come: A New Edition of the γ Text Established by H.W. Donner (2003), edited by Alan Halsey and published by West House Books in association with the Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society.

Some early editions of Beddoes’s writings are now available online:

Death’s Jest-Book (1850, Edited by T.F. Kelsall)

Poems by the Late Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1851, Edited by T.F. Kelsall)

The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Vol. 2 (1851, Edited by T.F. Kelsall)

The Poetical Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Vol. 1 (1890, Edited by Edmund Gosse)

The Poetical Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Vol. 2 (1890, Edited by Edmund Gosse)

The Letters of Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1894, Edited by Edmund Gosse)

A pdf copy of the first printing of The Brides’ Tragedy is available from Google Books:

The Brides’ Tragedy (Rivington, 1822)

German Poems, 1837-45: Die Schnecke und der Hirsch | Auf den Neujahrstag 1839 | Antistraussianischer Gruss | Der Weltvogel | Epigram | An den ‘Beobachter aus der Östl. Schweiz’ (1) | Antwort an den ‘Beobachter aus der Östl. Schweiz’ | An den grossen Rath | An den ‘Beobachter aus der Östlichen Schweiz’ | An die Urheber des 6. Septembers | An Beobachter, Wochen- und Schulzeitung | An den ‘Beobachter aus der Östl. Schweiz’ (2) | An die Zürcherische Freitagszeitung | An die Wochenzeitung | An den Apostaten Baumgartner

Additional Poems and Fragments: Drinking Song | Drinking Song (2)

In 1818, the year in which he turned fifteen, Beddoes wrote the tale, Scaroni, or The Mysterious Cave.