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]
| 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 | |
| Northumberland | 1949 | Herbert L. Honeyman[41] | |
| Nottinghamshire | 1953 | Christopher Marsden[42] | |
| Orkney | 1951 | Hugh Marwick[43] | |
| Oxfordshire | 1952 | Joanna Cannan[44] | |
| The Shetland Isles | 1956 | Andrew Thomas Cluness[45] | |
| Shropshire | 1949 | Edmund Vale[46] | |
| Skye and the Inner Hebrides | 1953 | Alasdair Alpin MacGregor[47] | |
| Somerset | 1949 | M. Lovett Turner[48] | |
| South London | 1949 | Harry Williams[49] | |
| Staffordshire | 1948 | Phil Drabble[50] | |
| Suffolk | 1950 | William Addison[51] | |
| 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] |