Lankester est l’éditeur de la revue Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science (à partir de 1860), du Treatise on Zoology (1900-1909) et participe à l’édition des mémoires de Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895).
The Advancement of Sciences (ouvrage collectif, 1889)
Monograph of the Okapi (1910)
Extinct Animals (1905)
The Kingdom of Man (1907)
Science from an Easy Chair (1910, deuxième édition, 1912)
Diversions of A Naturalist (1915)
Science and Education (1919)
Secrets of Earth and Sea (1920)
Great and Small Things (1923).
Publications scientifiques
(en) Edwin Ray Lankester, « On the use of the term homology in modern zoology, and the distinction between homogenetic and homoplastic agreements », Annals And Magazine of Natural History, 4e série, vol. 6, no 31, , p. 34-43 (ISSN0374-5481, DOI10.1080/00222937008696201, lire en ligne).
(en) Edwin Ray Lankester, « On the primitive cell-layers of the embryo as the basis of genealogical classification of animals, and on the origin of vascular and lymph systems », Annals And Magazine of Natural History, 4e série, vol. 11, no 65, , p. 321-338 (ISSN0374-5481, DOI10.1080/00222937308696824).
(en) Edwin Ray Lankester, « Notes on the Embryology and Classification of the Animal Kingdom : comprising a Revision of Speculations relative to the Origin and Significance of the Germ-layers », The Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 2e série, vol. 17, no 68, , p. 399-454 (ISSN0021-9533, lire en ligne [PDF]).