County Books series

Series about counties and regions in the British Isles From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

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Title Year Author
Bedfordshire1950Laurence Meynell[8]
Berkshire1952Ian Yarrow[9]
Buckinghamshire1950Alison Uttley[10]
Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and The Isle of Ely1951Eric Arnold Roberts Ennion[11]
Cheshire1949Frederick Herbert Crossley[12]
The Channel Islands1953Wilfred D. Hooke[13]
Cornwall1949Claude Berry[14]
Cumberland and Westmorland1949Norman Nicholson[15]
Derbyshire1950Crichton 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 Wight1949Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald[21] (series editor)
Herefordshire1948Harry Luff Verne Fletcher[22]
Hertfordshire1950William Beach Thomas[23]
Highlands of Scotland1963Seton Gordon[24]
The Isle of Man1950E. H. Stenning[25]
Kent1948Richard Church[26]
Lancashire1951Walter Greenwood[27]
Leicestershire1950Guy Paget and Lionel Herbert Irvine[28]
Leinster, Munster and Connaught1950Frank 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 South1956Maurice 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 Scotland1952John Robertson Allan[41]
Northumberland1949Herbert L. Honeyman[42]
Nottinghamshire1953Christopher Marsden[43]
Orkney1951Hugh Marwick[44]
Oxfordshire1952Joanna Cannan[45]
The Shetland Isles1956Andrew Thomas Cluness[46]
Shropshire1949Edmund Vale[47]
Skye and the Inner Hebrides1953Alasdair Alpin MacGregor[48]
Somerset1949M. Lovett Turner[49]
South London1949Harry Williams[50]
Staffordshire1948Phil Drabble[51]
Suffolk1950William Addison[41]
Surrey1947Frederick Moore Searle Parker[52]
Sussex1947Esther Meynell[53]
Ulster1949Hugh Shearman[54]
Wales1952 (2 vols.)Maxwell Fraser[55]
Warwickshire1950Alan Burgess[56]
Western Isles1949Alasdair Alpin MacGregor[57]
Wiltshire1951Edith Olivier[58]
Worcestershire1949L. T. C. Rolt[59]
Yorkshire East Riding1951John Fairfax-Blakeborough[60]
Yorkshire North Riding1951Oswald Henry Harland[61]
Yorkshire West Riding1950Lettice Cooper[62]
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