The Regional Books (book series)
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The Regional Books was a book series of topographical guides to the British regions published by Robert Hale and Company[1] from 1952. It was edited by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald.[2]
In the 1970s they published a broader Regions of Britain series.
| Title | Date | Author |
|---|---|---|
| Black Country | 1952 | Phil Drabble |
| Breckland | 1956 | Olive Cook |
| The Broads | 1952 | R. H. Mottram |
| The Channel Shore | 1953 | Aubrey de Selincourt |
| The Cotswolds | 1955 | Edith Brill |
| Dartmoor[3] | 1958 | Ernest Walter Martin |
| Exmoor | 1953 | Laurence Meynell |
| The Fens | 1953 | Alan Bloom |
| Forest of Dean[4] | 1952 | Francis William Baty |
| Gower | 1956 | Olive Phillips |
| Holiday Lancashire | 1955 | Sydney Moorhouse |
| The Isle of Wight | 1953 | Monica Hutchings |
| The Mendips[5] | 1954 | Arthur Wilfred Coysh, Edward John Mason and Vincent Waite |
| Merthyr, Rhondda and The Valleys | 1958 | Arthur Trystan Edwards |
| The Northern Marches[6] | 1953 | Cledwyn Hughes |
| Peakland | 1954 | Crichton Porteous |
| Pembrokeshire | 1957 | Ronald Lockley |
| Romney Marsh | 1953 | Walter J. C. Murray |
| Salisbury Plain | 1955 | Ralph Whitlock |
| The Scilly Isles[7] | 1953 | Clara Coltman Rogers Vyvyan |
| Sedgemoor and Avalon | 1954 | Desmond Hawkins |
| The Solway Firth | 1955 | Brian Blake |
| The South Hams | 1955 | Margaret Willy |
| The Southern Marches | 1952 | H. J. Massingham |
| Thames Estuary | 1954 | William Wilkinson Addison |
| Torridon Highlands[8] | 1953 | Brenda Grace Joan Macrow |
| The Vale of Berkeley | 1954 | Lewis Wilshire |
| The Vale of Pewsey | 1954 | H. W. Timperley |
| The Weald of Kent and Sussex | 1953 | Sheila Kaye-Smith |
| The Wessex Heathland | 1953 | Ralph Wightman |
| The Wirral Peninsula | 1955 | Norman Ellison |
See also
[edit]- County Books series
- Portrait Books series
References
[edit]- ^ "Rural Mappings" by Catherine Brace in Paul J. Cloke, ed. (2003). Country Visions. Harlow: Pearson Education. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-13-089601-8.
- ^ May Theilgaard Watts (1 August 2009). Reading the Landscape of Europe. Nature Study Guild Publishers. pp. 49–72 (p. 303). ISBN 978-0-912550-30-5.
- ^ Ernest Walter Martin (1958). Dartmoor. Hale.
- ^ Francis William Baty (1952). Forest of Dean. R. Hale.
- ^ Arthur Wilfred Coysh; E. J. Mason; V. Waite (1954). The Mendips. Hale.
- ^ Cledwyn Hughes (1953). The Northern Marches. Hale.
- ^ C. C. Vyvyan (1953). The Scilly Isles. Hale.
- ^ Brenda Grace Joan Macrow (1953). Torridon Highlands. Robert Hale.