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In 1942 or 1943, Warriner was approached by a publisher's sales representative about revising a grammar book dating from 1898. Warriner instead began writing chapters for a new book, which was published by Harcourt Brace as Warriner's Handbook of English, aimed at grades 9 and 10. This book was followed by a volume aimed at 11th and 12th graders.
John E. Warriner (January 24, 1907 – 1987) was an American educator and author, best known for his Warriner's English Grammar and Composition.His textbooks, published in many editions over the course of decades in the twentieth century, were considered "one of the best selling series in textbook publishing history."
Eugene Clarence Warriner (1866–1945) was a public educator in Michigan who focused on the cultivation of character and public education about the Peace Through Law Movement. [1] Warriner completed his Bachelor of Arts at The University of Michigan and went on to do graduate work at Clark University , Harvard University , and Columbia ...
[26] Other books by Nesfield include A Junior Course In English Composition, A Senior Course In English Composition, but it was his A Manual Of English Grammar and Composition that proved to be greatly successful both in Britain and her colonies—so much so that it formed the basis for many other grammar and composition primers including but ...
John Nesfield was born in 1836 and was the son of a cleric from Wiltshire, England. [1] He attended Highgate Grammar School from 1852 to 1855 and later taught there from 1859 to 1864. [2]
After 1915 the series continued as the Blue Guides and the familiar gold gilted red Murrays Handbooks published by John Murray London including the long running Handbook to India, Pakistan, Ceylon & Burma which concluded with the 21st edition in 1968 before changing from the original format of 1836 to a more modern paperback edition of 1975.
A booke of engines and traps to take polcats, buzardes, rattes, mice and all other kindes of vermine and beasts whatsoever, most profitable for all warriners, and such as delight in this kinde of sport and pastime, London, date unknown, reprinted in 1590. He also drew up the Registrum parochiæ de Farnham Royal comit.
Machinist's handbook may also refer to: American Machinists' Handbook a McGraw-Hill reference book published in the early 20th century Topics referred to by the same term