Everybody's Enquire Within


Everybody's Enquire Within is a lavishly illustrated book of miscellaneous knowledge first issued in weekly instalments in Britain from 1937 to 1938. It was edited by Charles Ray and published by the Amalgamated Press Ltd. It is not to be confused with the book Enquire Within Upon Everything which is a reference book with few if any illustrations.
The book was issued in fifty-five weekly instalments from Thursday 14 October 1937. The last was issued on Thursday 27 October 1938.
There are 1544 pages including the index. The instalments were intended to form two volumes: Volume One – parts 1 to 26, pp. 1–732; Volume Two – parts 27 to 55, pp. 733–1544.

Contents

The editor Charles Ray informs in his Introduction that the book contains 10,000 questions and offers 100,000 facts in answer to these questions. He gives the following examples of the questions posed:

At a conservative estimate, there are at least 5000 black-and-white photographs, diagrams, drawings and illustrations in the book. Very few of the pages have only one of these, and they mostly have at least two or more of these. Also the estimate does not include the countless illustrations and drawings contained in the following:

Republications

A small part of this book, roughly one-fifth, was published in 2012 under the title of Everybody's Book of Knowledge. It also contains sixteen of the colour plates of which eight are double folded pages. The two double folded pages that are not included in this volume are "What is That Medal Ribbon?" and "What is That Berry? Wild Berries of the British Countryside."