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Essays Genre
Books in the Essays genre:
The Venture (1905)
A collection of essays by literary lights of the day. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Et al
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906)
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Albert Levering
W. T. Smedley
Et al
The National Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens (1906)
This complete works of Charles Dickens was published in a forty-volume set and this eighty-volume set.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Hablot K. Browne
Et al
Christian Science (1907)
A combination of a humorous send-up and a more serious critique of the cult of Mary Baker Eddy. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Is Shakespeare Dead? from My Autobiography (1909)
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
None
Literary Lapses: A Book of Sketches (1910)
Author(s):
Stephen Leacock
Illustrator(s):
None
Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies (1910)
Author(s):
Lawrence P. Jacks
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
Literary Lapses: A Book of Sketches (1911)
This was a significantly enlarged edition with fourteen new sketches. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Stephen Leacock
Illustrator(s):
None
The Little White Bird (1912)
Author(s):
J. M. Barrie
Illustrator(s):
Walter Appleton Clark
Arthur Rackham
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (1912)
Author(s):
Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
Behind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge (1913)
Author(s):
Stephen Leacock
Illustrator(s):
Anne Harriet Fish
Portraits and Speculations (1913)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
None
King Albert’s Book (1914)
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Maxfield Parrish
Arthur Rackham
Et al
Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy (1915)
Another collection of humorous essays and stories from our northern neighbor. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Stephen Leacock
Illustrator(s):
Frank Hazen
Further Foolishness: Sketches and Satires on the Follies of the Day (1916)
Author(s):
Stephen Leacock
Illustrator(s):
no first name M.B.A.
Frenzied Fiction (1918)
Author(s):
Stephen Leacock
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
How it Feels to Be Fifty (1920)
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
None
I Wish I Had Not Been a Well-Frog (1920)
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies (1923)
Author(s):
Lawrence P. Jacks
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
The Windmill (1923)
Selections from books published by Heinemann including an essay by Masefield.
Author(s):
John Masefield
Various
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Et al
Many Happy Returns of the Day! (1925)
Everybody has a birthday - and that's worth celebrating.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Strack Platform Readings (1925)
A collection of humorous stories suitable for recitation.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Carter’s Legacy (1928)
A short story extolling the virtues of thrift and the history of a bank. Published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Citizens Trust Company of Utica, New York.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Rudolph Tandler
Fun ’o the Fair (1929)
This booklet about the showman Lord George Sanger was adapted from an essay which introduced Seventy Years a Showman by the said Lord George.
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Roberta F. C. Waudby
Dollarature or The Drug-Store Book (1930)
A meditation of the merchandising of books in drugstores.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Everybody’s Lamb (1933)
A generous helping of Lamb.
Author(s):
Charles Lamb
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Hunting the Wow (1934)
A collection of humorous stories and essays.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Thomas J. Fogarty
The Old Water-Colour Society’s Club: Eleventh Annual Volume 1933-1934 (1934)
A collection of articles and images published for the members of the club.
Author(s):
Arthur Rackham
Various
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Et al
Johnny Bear, Lobo and Other Stories (1935)
Includes Johnny Bear, Lobo, Raggylug, Chink, The Mother Teal and the Overland Rout and Wully.
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
The Mediterranean: An Anthology (1935)
A collection of stories and articles centered on the Mediterranean Sea.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Then and Now (1935)
Selections fromthe Jonathan Cape publisher’s house organ Now & Then, first published between 1921 and 1935.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Et al
As the Bee Sucks (1937)
A collection of essays from Punch.
Author(s):
E. V. Lucas
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Cheddar Gorge (1938)
A collection of essays by different authors on British cheeses.
Author(s):
John Collings Squire
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Local (1939)
A series of sketches of life in prewar London pubs.
Author(s):
Maurice Anthony Coneys Gorham
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Pleasure of Your Company: A Footnote to Friendship (1940)
An essay on friendship. Dust jacket by Lois Lenski.
Author(s):
Frances Lester Warner
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
An American ABC (1941)
Each letter has a large illustration and a patriotic essay.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
An Outline of Government in Connecticut (1944)
A guide to state government, produced by the Connecticut legislature.
Author(s):
Philip Everett Curtiss
James Daugherty
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Back to the Local (1949)
A collection of essays on the changes in the pub scene wrought by the Second World War.
Author(s):
Maurice Anthony Coneys Gorham
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Good Time Guide to London (1951)
Eight drawings by Ardizzone.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Et al
Londoners (1951)
A social history of London mid twentieth century.
Author(s):
Maurice Anthony Coneys Gorham
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Saturday Book Eleventh Year (1951)
An annual miscellany of prose and poetry by British authors. Single drawing by Ardizzone.
Author(s):
H. E. Bates
Alison Uttley
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Joan Hassall
Et al
Showmen and Suckers (1951)
A survey of popular entertainment from high class to low.
Author(s):
Maurice Anthony Coneys Gorham
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Book Illustration (1952)
A collection of articles which originally appeared in Publishers’ Weekly.
Author(s):
Richard Williamson Ellis
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Lynd Ward
Et al
Year In, Year Out (1952)
A collection of essays.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Pictures on the Pavement (1955)
A collection of essays on London life mid-twentieth century which first appeared in Punch.
Author(s):
George Walter Stonier
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Reading Without Boundaries (1956)
Author(s):
James Daugherty
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Valenti Angelo
The Godstone and the Blackymor (1959)
Author(s):
T. H. White
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Merry England (1960)
A series of essays on English popular culture in the 1950’s.
Author(s):
Cyril Ray
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Hornblower Companion (1964)
The author comments on his fictional creation.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Samuel Bryant
Confessions of a Dilettante (1966)
A collection of essays, including “Highbrow, Middlebrow, Lowbrow.”
Author(s):
Russell Lynes
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Et al
Henry David Thoreau: A Man for Our Time (1967)
Selected writings of the author and philosopher for young people.
Author(s):
Henry David Thoreau
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
In Search of Elsie Piddock (1967)
A reflection on a famous story by Eleanor Farjeon.
Author(s):
Denys Blakelock
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Adventure in Understanding (1968)
A collection of the author’s speeches.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Sound of Trumpets: Selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971)
Author(s):
James Daugherty
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Yours Pictorially: Illustrated Letters of Randolph Caldecott (1976)
A collection of illustrated letters by the author of the Picture Books.
Author(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Don’t Let the Turkeys Get You Down (1985)
A revised edition of The Compleat Turkey -- who they are and how to deal with them.
Author(s):
Sandra Boynton
Illustrator(s):
Sandra Boynton
Dorothy P. Lathrop: A Centenary Celebration (1991)
Author(s):
William Clarkin
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
The Zena Sutherland Lectures 1983-1992 (1993)
A collection of essays by children’s book authors and illustrators on their art.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
David Macaulay
The Origins of Story: On Writing for Children (1999)
Seventeen essays on aspects of writing for children.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
The Road to Rome (2000)
The text of the author’s Frances Clarke Sayers Lecture, along with some characteristic illustrations.
Author(s):
David Macaulay
Illustrator(s):
David Macaulay