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George Henry Edward Hawkins

1872–1941

Best remembered for practical early 20th-century books on advertising, this writer brought a working marketer’s eye to posters and newspapers. His surviving work feels especially useful because it was written from hands-on experience rather than theory alone.

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Poster advertising : Being a talk on the subject of posting as an advertising medium, with helpful hints and sensible suggestions to poster advertisers, and with thirty-two pages of full color reproductions of posters used by national advertisers

Poster advertising : Being a talk on the subject of posting as an advertising medium, with helpful hints and sensible suggestions to poster advertisers, and with thirty-two pages of full color reproductions of posters used by national advertisers

by George Henry Edward Hawkins

About the author

George Henry Edward Hawkins was a business writer active in the early 1900s, known for books about advertising methods and practice. Public-domain library records connect him with Poster Advertising (1910), and the book itself presents him as the advertising manager of the N. K. Fairbank Company.

He also wrote Newspaper Advertising (published in 1914), another detailed guide aimed at advertisers and retailers. Taken together, these books suggest a specialist interested in how everyday commercial messages actually worked in print and in public spaces.

Basic life dates for Hawkins are commonly given as 1872–1941. Reliable biographical detail beyond his publications and professional role is hard to confirm from the sources I found, so this overview stays close to the documented record of his work.