Lewis Christopher Edward Baumer (August 8, 1870 – October 25, 1963) was an English caricaturist who worked for more than fifty years for the British magazine Punch
Baumer was born at St John's Wood , London , England, and had studied at the St John's Wood Art School under A. A. Calderon, at the Royal Academy of Arts , and at the Royal College of Art. His first drawings appeared in the Pall Mall magazine in 1893; in 1897, his first cartoon in Punch appeared. In 1921, he was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours .
Books illustrated by Lewis Baumer include:
Jumbles – Lewis Baumer (Pearson, 1897) Elsie’s Magician – Fred Whishaw (Chambers, 1897) The Three Witches – Mrs Molesworth (Chambers, 1900) My Pretty and Her Little Brother “Too” and Other Stories – Mrs Molesworth (1901) The Story of The Treasure Seekers – E. Nesbit (T. Fisher Unwin, 1902) Arms and The Woman: A Romance – Harold MacGrath (Pearson, 1903) Did You Ever? Verses and Pictures – Lewis Baumer (Chambers, 1903) Mrs Pritchard’s School – L. T. Meade (Chambers, 1904) Hermy: The Story of a Little Girl – Mrs Molesworth (1904) Hoodie – Mrs Molesworth (Chambers, 1905) The Boys and I: A Child’s Story For Children – Mrs Molesworth (Chambers The Hill Top Girl – L T Meade (Chambers, 1906) The Blue Baby and Other Stories – Mrs Molesworth (Chambers, 1907) A Girl From America – L T Meade (Chambers, 1907) The Rainbow Book: Tales of Fun and Fantasy - M. H. Spielmann & Others (1909) [The Gamekeeper’s Daughter] Barbara Bellamy: A Public School Girl – May Baldwin (Chambers, 1909) The Wild Irish Girl – E T Meade (Hurst, 1910) Easter Bells: A Book of Hoppe and Gladness – May Byron (1910) Did You Ever? – Lewis Baumer (Chambers, 1910) Canned Classics, and Other Verses – Harry Graham (Mills & Boon, 1911) Cherry Ripe and Other Famous Lyrics (1911) For Dear Dad – E T Meade (1911) The Gift of Love (Ed. A. H. Hyatt) (1911) The Perfect Gentleman: A Guide To Social Aspirants (Compiled from The Occasional Papers of Reginald Drake Biffin) – Harry Graham (Arnold, 1912) The Motley Muse: Rhymes For The Times – Harry Graham (Arnold, 1913) Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray (Hodder, 1913) The Complete Sportsman (Compiled from The Occasional Papers of Reginald Drake Biffin) – Harry Graham (Arnold, 1914) An Elegy on The Death of a Mad Dog (Adapted from Goldsmith by F. Norton) (1914) The Lighter Side of School Life – Ian Hay (Foulis, 1915) Love, The Adventurous – Charles Garvice (1917) Old Christmas and Bracebridge Hall – Washington Irving (Constable, 1918) The Harlequinade: An Excursion - Calthorp, etc. (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1918) The Shallow End – Ian Hay (Hodder, 1924) Silver and Gold: Poems – Enid Blyton (Nelson, 1925) Departmental Ditties and Other Verses – Harry Graham (Mills & Boon, 1925) Bright Young Things: A Book of Drawings – Lewis Baumer (Methuen, 1928) Winter Sportings – Reginald Arkell (Jenkins, 1929) Happy Families – H. Graham (Cape, 1934) Ski Fever – J. B. Emtage (Methuen, 1936) Adapted from The Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators – Alan Horne (1994) 
