Bibliography 1
Where the book title is starred * click on the cover to see related artwork
Books written (and illustrated) by Eric Ennion
The Animal World – Its Attack and Defence
Raphael Tuck [c.1941]
275 x 210 mm. 32 pages, card covers. Illustrated throughout alternately with two-colour and full-colour line and wash drawings. Line drawings
inside front and back covers, printed in olive-green.
Adventurers Fen *
Methuen, 1942
210 x 165 mm. xii + 68 pages, 64 line or line and wash drawings printed in sepia. Two pictorial maps on endpapers, printed in sepia.
Foreword by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald.
Dust jacket printed in sepia on buff paper.
Adventurers Fen - Revised and extensively enlarged edition
Herbert Jenkins, 1949
220 x 135 mm. xviii + 110 pages, 77 line or line and wash drawings printed in black. Two pictorial maps on endpapers, printed in a
single colour.
Dust jacket printed in brown and green. On later-bound copies this was replaced by a simplified design, printed in green on cream paper,
incorporating a line drawing of the bittern in flight.
Adventurers Fen - New edition
Colt Books, 1996
220 x 165 mm. xx + 68 pages. A reprint of the 1942 edition, with an additional foreword by John Humphreys and a note about the author.
The illustrations and end paper maps are printed in black.
Dust jacket printed in sepia and blue. Photograph of Eric Ennion on back flap.
The British Bird
Oxford University Press, 1943
185 x 125 mm. xii + 172 pages, 15 full-page plates printed in two-colours from full-colour originals. 59 line drawings, one repeated.
Dust jacket design printed in blue and black on buff paper.
The Story of Migration
Harrap, 1947
250 x 185 mm. 100 pages, 110 line drawings.
Dust jacket design printed in blue, grey and black.
Life on the Sea Shore
Oxford University Press, 1948
180 x 120 mm. 80 pages, 16 full-page plates reproduced in full-colour from watercolour drawings. 10 line drawings.
Number 25 in The Chameleon Books series. The design on the pictorial boards and identical dust jacket, and the chameleon motif on the half-title,
are not by Eric Ennion.
The Lapwing
Methuen, 1949
210 x 165 mm. xii + 48 pages, 4 full-page plates reproduced in full-colour from watercolour drawings. 31 line drawings, 1 repeated. Decorative
line-drawn endpapers.
The line-drawn design (dated 1946) on the pictorial boards is printed in black on light green. The dust jacket is identical.
Number 1 in the Field Study Books series which was edited by Eric Ennion. The design for the pictorial boards and dust jacket was used for all 8 titles.
Cambridgeshire, Huntingdon and the Isle of Ely
Robert Hale, 1951
210 x 135 mm. xiv + 256 pages and a folding map.
The dust jacket illustration is by [ ? ]
A volume in The County Books Series; the general editor was Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. Illustrated with 49 black-and-white photographs by Mr Staniland
Pugh of Amersham. There are no illustrations by Eric Ennion.
Bird Study in a Garden
Penguin Books, 1958
180 x 220 mm. 32 page paperback. Illustrated throughout, alternately with monochrome and full-colour wash drawings. Full-colour drawings on front
and back covers.
Puffin Picture Book Number 106.
The House on the Shore *
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1960
210 x 135 mm. xvi + 200 pages, 64 line and wash drawings (16 of them full-page) reproduced in monochrome, and 3 line drawings. Line drawing on
endpapers.
There are an additional 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.
Dust jacket printed in three colours.
Birdwatching
Pelham Books, 1963
185 x 120 mm. 140 pages, 1 full-page half-tone wash drawing and 68 line drawings.
Has an additional 7 pages of black-and-white photographs.
The photograph on the dust jacket is by S C Porter.
Tracks *
Oxford University Press, 1967
280 x 210 mm. 64 pages, 29 two-colour wash drawings and 7 drawings added to black-and-white photographs by Niko and Jaap Tinbergen.
The book was co-authored with Niko Tinbergen who also took the photograph reproduced on the dust jacket.
Bird Man's River
Benton Street Books, 2011
300 x 240 mm. 160 pages, 80 colour illustrations, 8 line drawings. Decorative endpapers printed in grey.
Introduction by Bob Walthew
The dust jacket reproduces 3 additional watercolour studies.
Books illustrated (wholly or in part) by Eric Ennion
Ball-room Dancing * by H. St. John Rumsey
Methuen, 1925
185 x 120 mm. xii + 72 pages, 8 page publisher's catalogue. 16 illustrations in line and silhouette.
The dust jacket design, printed in blue-black on buff paper, repeats one of the drawings from the book.
Life in Pond and Stream by Richard Morse
Oxford University Press, 1945
180 x 120 mm. 80 pages. 16 full-page plates reproduced in full-colour from watercolour drawings.
Number 23 in The Chameleon Books series. The design on the pictorial boards and identical dust jacket, and the chameleon motif on the half-title,
are not by Eric Ennion.
Bird Life by Edward A. Armstrong
Lindsay Drummond, 1949
215 x 135 mm. xii + 152 pages. 2 full-page half-tone plates from wash drawings. 45 line drawings, one repeated.
The photograph on the dust jacket is by Eric Hosking.
British Bats by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald
Methuen, 1949
210 x 165 mm. x + 62 pages. 4 full-page plates reproduced in full-colour from watercolour drawings, 30 line drawings. Decorative line-drawn
endpapers.
The line-drawn design (dated 1946) on the pictorial boards is printed in black on light green. The dust jacket is identical.
Number 2 in the Field Study Books series which was edited by Eric Ennion. The design for the pictorial boards and dust jacket was used for all 8
titles.
Archaeological Remains by J. R. Garrood
Methuen, 1949
210 x 165 mm. xii + 48 pages. 4 full-page plates reproduced in full-colour from watercolour drawings. Decorative line-drawn endpapers.
The line-drawn design (dated 1946) on the pictorial boards is printed in black on light green. The dust jacket is identical.
Number 3 in the Field Study Books series which was edited by Eric Ennion. The design for the pictorial boards and dust jacket was used for all 8
titles.
Country Cottages by Marshall Sisson
Methuen, 1949
210 x 165 mm. x + 54 pages. Decorative endpapers from a pencil drawing.
The line-drawn design (dated 1946) on the pictorial boards is printed in black on light green. The dust jacket is identical.
Number 4 in the Field Study Books series which was edited by Eric Ennion. The design for the pictorial boards and dust jacket was used for all 8 titles.
Chambers's Encyclopaedia new edition
George Newnes, 1950
265 x 185 mm. CCXL + 12,444 pages in 15 volumes. 1 full-page plate in full colour from a watercolour drawing, 4 full-page half-tone plates from
wash drawings, 31 line drawings.
Eric Ennion's illustrations accompany ornithological entries contributed by Edward Armstrong and Kenneth Williamson. The entries illustrated are:
Albatross, Auk, Avocet, Bird, Bird Display, Bird Song, Bower Bird, Bustard, Cormorant, Crane, Crossbill, Crow, Cuckoo, Eagle, Emu, Gannet, Grouse,
Hammerhead (Hammerkop), Hoatzin, Hornbill, Huia, Humming-bird, Nest, Nightingale, Nightjar, Owl, Pelican, Pheasant, Pigeon, Plover, Quetzal, Shrike,
Spoonbill, Swift, Tern, Tropic-bird.
Camping by Water by Noel Carrington & Patricia Cavendish
Peter Davies, 1950
185 x 120 mm. 140 pages. 12 line drawings.
The dust jacket design, printed in brown and green, incorporates line drawings from the book, including 4 by Eric Ennion.
Eric Ennion wrote the final chapter in the book "Waterside camping and wildlife" which is illustrated with his 12 line drawings.
The Bird in the Hand by R. K. Cornwallis and A. E. Smith
British Trust for Ornithology, 1960
215 x 135 mm. 114 + ii pages, card covers. 5 full-page line-drawn illustrations (2 with mechanical shading).
The cover illustration for the Second Edition (shown) is by Robert Gillmor, based on one of Eric Ennion's line drawings.
British Trust for Ornithology Field Guide Number Six
The Shell Bird Book * by James Fisher
Ebury Press and Michael Joseph, 1966
195 x 120 mm. 344 pages. 8 full-page full-colour plates reproducing 48 studies of birds originally painted for Shell's British Bird Sanctuaries
advertisement series. 1 monochrome pencil and wash drawing, which originally appeared in the The Countryman's Log.
The painting on the front of the dust jacket is by Peter Scott (it was replaced by Maurice Wilson's seabirds when the book was reprinted in
the 1970's). Eight of Eric Ennion's small square bird studies from the book are reproduced on the back of the jacket.
Exile from Eden – selected poems by Lilian Maude Watts
The Mitre Press, 1966
210 x 135 mm. 56 pages. Full-colour frontispiece which originally appeared (in half-tone) in The Countryman's Log.
The dust jacket illustration is by Shirley Townend whose line drawings decorate the book.
Birds by Gwen Allen and Joan Denslow
Oxford University Press, 1968
200 x 225 mm. 48 pages. Watercolour illustrations of 53 species reproduced in full-colour across 24 pages, on 7 of which there are also small line
drawings to indicate scale; 17 pages of line drawings. Number 2 in The Clue Books series.
Laminated boards printed in blue and black, with illustrations from the book. Later reprints had a redesigned cover which substituted finches for the
swift. No dust jacket.
Naturalist in Northumberland by Sir John Craster
Robert Hale, 1969
215 x 140 mm. 174 pages. 25 line-drawn chapter headings
The dust jacket illustrations are by Val Biro.
Signals for Survival * by Niko Tinbergen and Hugh Falkus
Oxford University Press, 1970
280 x 215 mm. 80 pages. 27 pages of wash drawings, drawn and printed in 3 colours.
Dust jacket illustration in full-colour.
Tracks and Signs * by Gwen Allen and Joan Denslow
Oxford University Press, 1975
200 x 225 mm. 48 pages. 5 pages with line or wash drawings reproduced in monochrome. 15 pages with two-colour wash drawings. Number 9 in The Clue
Books series.
Laminated boards printed in brown and black; photograph by Niko Tinbergen. No dust jacket.
The Birds of Wiltshire edited by John Buxton
Wiltshire Library & Museum Service, 1981
200 x 130 mm. xiv + 194 pages.
Cover illustration in full-colour (laminated soft covers; no dust jacket).
Extract from John Buxton's preface dated October 1980: “We are also grateful to Dr. Ennion and to the Council of the Wiltshire Trust for Nature
Conservation for permitting us to use his drawing of a Hobby as the front cover illustration”.
Acknowledgement: This is an expanded version of the bibliography prepared by Robert Gillmor for The Living Birds of Eric Ennion
(Victor Gollancz, 1982).
Eric Ennion artwork © The Estate of E A R Ennion