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The County Books series, by Robert Hale and Company of London, covered counties and regions in the British Isles. It was launched in March 1947, and began with Kent, Surrey and Sussex. [1] [2] The series was announced as completed in 1954, in 60 volumes, with Lowlands of Scotland: Edinburgh and the South by Maurice Lindsay. [3] The announced intention was to give "a true and lively picture of each county and people". [4]

Contents

Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald was general editor of the County Books, and he also edited a series of Regional Books for Robert Hale. [5] [6] Both series were eulogistic about the countryside. [7]

The County Books

TitleYearAuthor
Bedfordshire1950 Laurence Meynell [8]
Berkshire1952Ian Yarrow [9]
Buckinghamshire1950 Alison Uttley [10]
Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and The Isle of Ely1951 Eric Arnold Roberts Ennion [11]
Cheshire1949Frederick Herbert Crossley [12]
The Channel Islands1953Wilfred D. Hooke [13]
Cornwall1949Claude Berry [14]
Cumberland and Westmorland1949 Norman Nicholson [15]
Derbyshire1950 Crichton Porteous [16]
Devonshire1950Douglas St. Leger-Gordon
Dorset1950Eric Benfield [17]
Durham1952 (two vols.)Timothy Calvert Eden
East London1950Robert Sinclair [18]
Essex1950Clarence Henry Warren [19]
Gloucestershire1949Kenneth Hare [20]
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight1949 Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald [21] (series editor)
Herefordshire1948Harry Luff Verne Fletcher [22]
Hertfordshire1950 William Beach Thomas [23]
Highlands of Scotland1963Seton Gordon [24]
The Isle of Man1950 E. H. Stenning [25]
Kent1948 Richard Church [26]
Lancashire1951 Walter Greenwood [27]
Leicestershire1950 Guy Paget and Lionel Herbert Irvine [28]
Leinster, Munster and Connaught1950 Frank O'Connor [29]
Lincoln1952John Bygott [30]
London West of the Bars1951Wilfrid Douglas Newton [31]
London: The City1951Claud Golding [32]
London: The Northern Reaches1951Robert Colville [33]
London: The Western Reaches1950Godfrey James [34]
Lowlands of Scotland: Edinburgh and the South1956 Maurice Lindsay [35]
Lowlands of Scotland: Glasgow and the North1953Maurice Lindsay [36]
Middlesex1951Norman George Brett-James [37]
Monmouthshire1951Olive Phillips [38]
Norfolk1951Doreen Wallace and Richard Perceval Bagnall Oakeley [39]
Northamptonshire1954Tony Ireson [40]
North-East Lowlands of Scotland1952 John Robertson Allan [41]
Northumberland1949Herbert L. Honeyman [42]
Nottinghamshire1953Christopher Marsden [43]
Orkney1951 Hugh Marwick [44]
Oxfordshire1952Joanna Cannan [45]
The Shetland Isles1956Andrew Thomas Cluness [46]
Shropshire1949Edmund Vale [47]
Skye and the Inner Hebrides1953 Alasdair Alpin MacGregor [48]
Somerset1949M. Lovett Turner [49]
South London1949Harry Williams [50]
Staffordshire1948 Phil Drabble [51]
Suffolk1950 William Addison [41]
Surrey1947 Frederick Moore Searle Parker [52]
Sussex1947 Esther Meynell [53]
Ulster1949Hugh Shearman [54]
Wales1952 (2 vols.)Maxwell Fraser [55]
Warwickshire1950Alan Burgess [56]
Western Isles1949Alasdair Alpin MacGregor [57]
Wiltshire1951 Edith Olivier [58]
Worcestershire1949 L. T. C. Rolt [59]
Yorkshire East Riding1951 John Fairfax-Blakeborough [60]
Yorkshire North Riding1951Oswald Henry Harland [61]
Yorkshire West Riding1950 Lettice Cooper [62]

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  2. ↑ Dave Russell (1 October 2004). Looking North: Northern England and the National Imagination. Manchester University Press. p. 47. ISBN   978-0-7190-5178-4.
  3. ↑ The Bookseller. J. Whitaker. 1954. p. 21.
  4. ↑ Gavin Stamp (1 December 2013). Anti-Ugly: Excursions in English Architecture and Design. Aurum Press Limited. p. 2. ISBN   978-1-78131-123-3.
  5. ↑ L. T. C. Rolt (1977). Landscape with Canals. Lane. p. 73. ISBN   978-0-7139-0799-5.
  6. ↑ May Theilgaard Watts (1 August 2009). Reading the Landscape of Europe. Nature Study Guild Publishers. p. 303. ISBN   978-0-912550-30-5.
  7. ↑ Paul J. Cloke (2003). Country Visions. Pearson/Prentice Hall. p. 56. ISBN   978-0-13-089601-8.
  8. ↑ Laurence Meynell (1950). Bedfordshire. R. Hale.
  9. ↑ Ian Harley Haynes Yarrow (1952). Berkshire. Robert Hale.
  10. ↑ Alison Uttley (1950). Buckinghamshire. R. Hale.
  11. ↑ Eric Arnold Roberts Ennion (1951). Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and the Isle of Ely. London.
  12. ↑ Frederick Herbert Crossley (1949). Cheshire. R. Hale.
  13. ↑ Wilfred D. Hooke (1953). The Channel Islands. Hale.
  14. ↑ Claude Berry (1949). Cornwall. R. Hale.
  15. ↑ Norman Nicholson (1949). Cumberland and Westmorland. Hale.
  16. ↑ Crichton Porteous (1950). Derbyshire. R. Hale.
  17. ↑ Eric Benfield (1950). Dorset. R. Hale. ISBN   9787270004020.
  18. ↑ Robert Sinclair (1950). East London: The East and North-east Boroughs of London and Greater London. Hale.
  19. ↑ Clarence Henry Warren (1950). Essex. London.
  20. ↑ Kenneth Hare (1949). Gloucestershire. R. Hale. ISBN   9787230007689.
  21. ↑ Brian Seymour Vesey-FitzGerald (1949). Hampshire & the Isle of Wight. R. Hale.
  22. ↑ Harry Luff Verne Fletcher (1948). Herefordshire. R. Hale.
  23. ↑ William Beach Thomas (1950). Hertfordshire. R. Hale. ISBN   9787270004402.
  24. ↑ Seton Gordon (1963). Highlands of Scotland. Hale.
  25. ↑ N. H. Woodcock (1999). In Sight of the Suture: Palaeozoic Geology of the Isle of Man in Its Iapetus Ocean Context. Geological Society of London. p. 359. ISBN   978-1-86239-046-1.
  26. ↑ Richard Church (1948). Kent.
  27. ↑ Walter Greenwood (1951). Lancashire. Hale.
  28. ↑ Guy Paget; Lionel Irvine (1950). Leicestershire. Hale.
  29. ↑ Frank O'Connor (1950). Leinster, Munster and Connaught. R. Hale.
  30. ↑ John Bygott (1952). Lincolnshire. R. Hale.
  31. ↑ Wilfrid Douglas Newton (1951). London West of the Bars. Hale.
  32. ↑ Claud Golding (1951). London: the city. Hale. ISBN   9787250010423.
  33. ↑ Robert Colville (1951). London: The Northern Reaches. Robert Hale, Limited.
  34. ↑ Godfrey James (1950). London, the Western Reaches. Hale.
  35. ↑ Maurice Lindsay (broadcaster) (1956). The Lowlands of Scotland: Edinburgh and the South. R. Hale.
  36. ↑ Maurice Lindsay (broadcaster) (1953). The lowlands of Scotland: Glasgow and the North. Illus. and with a map. Robert Hale. ISBN   9787230006941.
  37. ↑ Norman George Brett-James (1951). Middlesex. Hale. ISBN   9787270003702.
  38. ↑ Olive Phillips (1951). Monmouthshire. R. Hale.
  39. ↑ Doreen Wallace; Richard Perceval Bagnall Oakeley (1951). Norfolk. London.
  40. ↑ Tony Ireson (1954). Northamptonshire. Hale. ISBN   9787270004266.
  41. 1 2 Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. CUP Archive. 1965. p. 143. GGKEY:3YZHZLHSC2A.
  42. ↑ Herbert L. Honeyman (1949). Northumberland.
  43. ↑ Christopher Marsden (1953). Nottinghamshire. Hale.
  44. ↑ Hugh Marwick (1951). Orkney. Hale. ISBN   9787250002534.
  45. ↑ Joanna Cannan (1952). Oxfordshire. Hale.
  46. ↑ Andrew T. Cluness (1956). The Shetland Isles. Hale.
  47. ↑ Edmund Vale (1949). Shropshire. Robert Hale.
  48. ↑ Alasdair Alpin MacGregor (1953). Skye and the Inner Hebrides. Hale. ISBN   9787230006866.
  49. ↑ M. Lovett Turner (1949). Somerset. Hale.
  50. ↑ Harry Williams (1949). South London. Robert Hale.
  51. ↑ Phil Drabble (1948). Staffordshire. R. Hale. ISBN   9787270004075.
  52. ↑ Pottle, Mark. "Parker, Frederick Moore Searle". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35383.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  53. ↑ Esther Meynell (1947). Sussex. Hale. ISBN   978-0-7091-2617-1.
  54. ↑ Hugh Shearman (1949). Ulster . R. Hale.
  55. ↑ Bobby Freeman (1996). First Catch Your Peacock: Her Classic Guide to Welsh Food. Y Lolfa. p. 311. ISBN   978-0-86243-315-4.
  56. ↑ Alan Burgess (1950). Warwickshire. R. Hale. ISBN   9787800669972.
  57. ↑ Alasdair Alpin MacGregor (1949). The Western Isles. Hale.
  58. ↑ Edith Olivier (1951). Wiltshire. Hale, London.
  59. ↑ L. T. C. Rolt (1949). Worcestershire. R. Hale. ISBN   9787270004105.
  60. ↑ John Fairfax-Blakeborough (1951). Yorkshire East Riding. R. Hale.
  61. ↑ Oswald Henry Harland (1951). Yorkshire North Riding. Hale.
  62. ↑ Lettice Ulpha Cooper (1950). Yorkshire West Riding. Hale.
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