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Essays Genre
Books in the Essays genre:
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
A Birthday and Some Memories (1928)
Writings on the diamond jubilee of Eno’s Fruit Salt, a popular antacid. Includes an illustration by Rackham.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Edmund J. Sullivan
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
The Colophon: Part Fourteen (1933)
A periodical devoted to the book arts. Individual sections were produced by different fine printers.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
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