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Essays Genre
Books in the Essays genre:
First Adventures in Reading (1936)
An expert helps parents introduce their children to the joys of reading.
Author(s):
May Lamberton Becker
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
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
The Oxford Illustrated Dickens (1947)
This edition in twenty-one volumes has been frequently reprinted.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Hablot K. Browne
George Cruikshank
Et al
Toller Reports (1947)
A collection of sketches from Punch about an inefficient subaltern in WWII, illustrated by various official war artists.
Author(s):
Jeremy Taylor
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Et al
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
A Stickful of Nonpareil (1956)
A keepsake from Cambridge University Press, intended to give an idea of turn-of-the-twentieth-century printing.
Author(s):
George Scurfield
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Godstone and the Blackymor (1959)
Author(s):
T. H. White
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone