County Books series

Series about counties and regions in the British Isles

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.[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]

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

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Title  | Year  | Author

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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

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* Portrait Books series
* The Regional Books

## References

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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. ^ a b 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.

## External links

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* Library Thing page