County Books series

County Books volumes (right)

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. The series was announced as completed in 1954, in 60 volumes, with Lowlands of Scotland: Edinburgh and the South by Maurice Lindsay. The announced intention was to give "a true and lively picture of each county and people".

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

The County Books

Title Year Author
Bedfordshire1950Laurence Meynell
Berkshire1952Ian Yarrow
Buckinghamshire1950Alison Uttley
Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and The Isle of Ely1951Eric Arnold Roberts Ennion
Cheshire1949Frederick Herbert Crossley
The Channel Islands1953Wilfred D. Hooke
Cornwall1949Claude Berry
Cumberland and Westmorland1949Norman Nicholson
Derbyshire1950Crichton Porteous
Devonshire1950Douglas St. Leger-Gordon
Dorset1950Eric Benfield
Durham1952 (two vols.)Timothy Calvert Eden
East London1950Robert Sinclair
Essex1950Clarence Henry Warren
Gloucestershire1949Kenneth Hare
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight1949Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald (series editor)
Herefordshire1948Harry Luff Verne Fletcher
Hertfordshire1950William Beach Thomas
Highlands of Scotland1963Seton Gordon
The Isle of Man1950E. H. Stenning
Kent1948Richard Church
Lancashire1951Walter Greenwood
Leicestershire1950Guy Paget and Lionel Herbert Irvine
Leinster, Munster and Connaught1950Frank O'Connor
Lincoln1952John Bygott
London West of the Bars1951Wilfrid Douglas Newton
London: The City1951Claud Golding
London: The Northern Reaches1951Robert Colville
London: The Western Reaches1950Godfrey James
Lowlands of Scotland: Edinburgh and the South1956Maurice Lindsay
Lowlands of Scotland: Glasgow and the North1953Maurice Lindsay
Middlesex1951Norman George Brett-James
Monmouthshire1951Olive Phillips
Norfolk1951Doreen Wallace and Richard Perceval Bagnall Oakeley
Northamptonshire1954Tony Ireson
North-East Lowlands of Scotland1952John Robertson Allan
Northumberland1949Herbert L. Honeyman
Nottinghamshire1953Christopher Marsden
Orkney1951Hugh Marwick
Oxfordshire1952Joanna Cannan
The Shetland Isles1956Andrew Thomas Cluness
Shropshire1949Edmund Vale
Skye and the Inner Hebrides1953Alasdair Alpin MacGregor
Somerset1949M. Lovett Turner
South London1949Harry Williams
Staffordshire1948Phil Drabble
Suffolk1950William Addison
Surrey1947Frederick Moore Searle Parker
Sussex1947Esther Meynell
Ulster1949Hugh Shearman
Wales1952 (2 vols.)Maxwell Fraser
Warwickshire1950Alan Burgess
Western Isles1949Alasdair Alpin MacGregor
Wiltshire1951Edith Olivier
Worcestershire1949L. T. C. Rolt
Yorkshire East Riding1951John Fairfax-Blakeborough
Yorkshire North Riding1951Oswald Henry Harland
Yorkshire West Riding1950Lettice Cooper

See also

References

  1. ↑ The Bookseller. J. Whitaker. 1954. p. 225.
  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. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  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. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  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. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  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. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  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. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  37. ↑ Norman George Brett-James (1951). Middlesex. Hale. ISBN 9787270003702. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  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. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  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. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  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. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  49. ↑ M. Lovett Turner (1949). Somerset. Hale.
  50. ↑ Harry Williams (1949). South London. Robert Hale.
  51. ↑ Phil Drabble (1948). Staffordshire. R. Hale. ISBN 9787270004075. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  52. ↑ Pottle, Mark. "Parker, Frederick Moore Searle". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35383. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  53. ↑ Esther Meynell (1947). Sussex. Hale. ISBN 978-0-7091-2617-1. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  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. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  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. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  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.