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 TitleYearAuthorBedfordshire1950Laurence MeynellBerkshire1952Ian Yarrow Buckinghamshire1950Alison UttleyCambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and The Isle of Ely1951Eric Arnold Roberts EnnionCheshire1949Frederick Herbert CrossleyThe Channel Islands1953Wilfred D. HookeCornwall1949Claude BerryCumberland and Westmorland1949Norman NicholsonDerbyshire1950Crichton PorteousDevonshire1950Douglas St. Leger-GordonDorset1950Eric BenfieldDurham1952 (two vols.)Timothy Calvert Eden East London1950Robert Sinclair Essex1950Clarence Henry WarrenGloucestershire1949Kenneth HareHampshire and the Isle of Wight1949Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald (series editor)Herefordshire1948Harry Luff Verne FletcherHertfordshire1950William Beach Thomas Highlands of Scotland1963Seton GordonThe Isle of Man1950E. H. StenningKent1948Richard ChurchLancashire1951Walter GreenwoodLeicestershire1950Guy Paget and Lionel Herbert IrvineLeinster, Munster and Connaught1950Frank O'ConnorLincoln1952John BygottLondon West of the Bars1951Wilfrid Douglas NewtonLondon: The City1951Claud GoldingLondon: The Northern Reaches1951Robert ColvilleLondon: The Western Reaches1950Godfrey James Lowlands of Scotland: Edinburgh and the South1956Maurice LindsayLowlands of Scotland: Glasgow and the North1953Maurice LindsayMiddlesex1951Norman George Brett-James Monmouthshire1951Olive PhillipsNorfolk1951Doreen Wallace and Richard Perceval Bagnall OakeleyNorthamptonshire1954Tony IresonNorth-East Lowlands of Scotland1952John Robertson AllanNorthumberland1949Herbert L. HoneymanNottinghamshire1953Christopher MarsdenOrkney1951Hugh Marwick Oxfordshire1952Joanna CannanThe Shetland Isles1956Andrew Thomas ClunessShropshire1949Edmund ValeSkye and the Inner Hebrides1953Alasdair Alpin MacGregorSomerset1949M. Lovett TurnerSouth London1949Harry WilliamsStaffordshire1948Phil DrabbleSuffolk1950William AddisonSurrey1947 Frederick Moore Searle ParkerSussex1947 Esther MeynellUlster1949Hugh ShearmanWales1952 (2 vols.)Maxwell FraserWarwickshire1950Alan BurgessWestern Isles1949Alasdair Alpin MacGregorWiltshire1951Edith OlivierWorcestershire1949L. T. C. RoltYorkshire East Riding1951John Fairfax-BlakeboroughYorkshire North Riding1951Oswald Henry HarlandYorkshire West Riding1950Lettice Cooper
See also Portrait Books series The Regional Books
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