County Books series

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]

County Books volumes (right)

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

Title	Year	Author
Bedfordshire	1950	Laurence Meynell[8]
Berkshire	1952	Ian Yarrow[9]
Buckinghamshire	1950	Alison Uttley[10]
Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and The Isle of Ely	1951	Eric Arnold Roberts Ennion[11]
Cheshire	1949	Frederick Herbert Crossley[12]
The Channel Islands	1953	Wilfred D. Hooke[13]
Cornwall	1949	Claude Berry[14]
Cumberland and Westmorland	1949	Norman Nicholson[15]
Derbyshire	1950	Crichton Porteous[16]
Devonshire	1950	Douglas St. Leger-Gordon
Dorset	1950	Eric Benfield[17]
Durham	1952 (two vols.)	Timothy Calvert Eden
East London	1950	Robert Sinclair[18]
Essex	1950	Clarence Henry Warren[19]
Gloucestershire	1949	Kenneth Hare[20]
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight	1949	Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald[21] (series editor)
Herefordshire	1948	Harry Luff Verne Fletcher[22]
Hertfordshire	1950	William Beach Thomas[23]
Highlands of Scotland	1963	Seton Gordon[24]
The Isle of Man	1950	E. H. Stenning[25]
Kent	1948	Richard Church[26]
Lancashire	1951	Walter Greenwood[27]
Leicestershire	1950	Guy Paget and Lionel Herbert Irvine[28]
Leinster, Munster and Connaught	1950	Frank O'Connor[29]
Lincoln	1952	John Bygott[30]
London West of the Bars	1951	Wilfrid Douglas Newton[31]
London: The City	1951	Claud Golding[32]
London: The Northern Reaches	1951	Robert Colville[33]
London: The Western Reaches	1950	Godfrey James[34]
Lowlands of Scotland: Edinburgh and the South	1956	Maurice Lindsay[35]
Lowlands of Scotland: Glasgow and the North	1953	Maurice Lindsay[36]
Middlesex	1951	Norman George Brett-James[37]
Monmouthshire	1951	Olive Phillips[38]
Norfolk	1951	Doreen Wallace and Richard Perceval Bagnall Oakeley[39]
Northamptonshire	1954	Tony Ireson[40]
North-East Lowlands of Scotland	1952	John Robertson Allan[41]
Northumberland	1949	Herbert L. Honeyman[42]
Nottinghamshire	1953	Christopher Marsden[43]
Orkney	1951	Hugh Marwick[44]
Oxfordshire	1952	Joanna Cannan[45]
The Shetland Isles	1956	Andrew Thomas Cluness[46]
Shropshire	1949	Edmund Vale[47]
Skye and the Inner Hebrides	1953	Alasdair Alpin MacGregor[48]
Somerset	1949	M. Lovett Turner[49]
South London	1949	Harry Williams[50]
Staffordshire	1948	Phil Drabble[51]
Suffolk	1950	William Addison[41]
Surrey	1947	Frederick Moore Searle Parker[52]
Sussex	1947	Esther Meynell[53]
Ulster	1949	Hugh Shearman[54]
Wales	1952 (2 vols.)	Maxwell Fraser[55]
Warwickshire	1950	Alan Burgess[56]
Western Isles	1949	Alasdair Alpin MacGregor[57]
Wiltshire	1951	Edith Olivier[58]
Worcestershire	1949	L. T. C. Rolt[59]
Yorkshire East Riding	1951	John Fairfax-Blakeborough[60]
Yorkshire North Riding	1951	Oswald Henry Harland[61]
Yorkshire West Riding	1950	Lettice Cooper[62]

See also

• Portrait Books series
• The Regional Books

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.
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.
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.
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.
33. Robert Colville (1951). London: The Northern Reaches. Robert Hale, Limited.
34. Godfrey James (1950). London, the Western Reaches. Hale.
35. Maurice Lindsay (1956). The Lowlands of Scotland: Edinburgh and the South. R. Hale.
36. Maurice Lindsay (1953*). The lowlands of Scotland: Glasgow and the North. Illus. and with a map. Robert Hale. Check date values in: |date= (help)
37. Norman George Brett-James (1951). Middlesex. Hale.
38. Olive Phillips (1951). Monmouthshire. R. Hale.
39. Doreen Wallace; Richard Perceval Bagnall Oakeley (1951). Norfolk. London.
40. Tony Ireson (1954). Northamptonshire. Hale.
41. 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.
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.
49. M. Lovett Turner (1949). Somerset. Hale.
50. Harry Williams (1949). South London. Robert Hale.
51. Phil Drabble (1948). Staffordshire. R. Hale.
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.
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.
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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