Beautiful England
Series · 26
books · 1910-2015
Books in series
#1
Bath and Wells
1914
"Beautiful England" was the title of a series of short, illustrated travel/guide books first published in Britain by Blackie & Son around 1910 and continuing in print until the 1950s. Each title featured a particular region, town or city in England and was illustrated by watercolour landscape painter, E W Haslehust.
#2
Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch
1915
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#3
Cambridge
1910
(Beautiful England Series)
#4
Canterbury Beautiful England
1910
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#5
Chester
1920
#6
The Cornish Riviera
1911
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
#7
Dartmoor
1928
DARTMOOR Described by Arthur L. Salmon Pictured by E. W. Haslehust
#9
The Dukeries
1911
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#10
The English Lakes
1910
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#11
Exeter
1912
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#12
Folkestone and Dover
1920
Excerpt from Folkestone and Dover "At no season does Folkestone cease to be charming." Thus did a much-travelled American some years ago pay tribute to one of the chief of the south of England watering-places, a town which, if it has little that is old to show and no very striking history to tell, thoroughly serves its purpose as a watering-place and healthful holiday resort. Many thousands of visitors from London and other parts of England every year make Folkestone the spot in which they seek change from the year's work in healthful rest and play, and find - in its striking situation, its beautiful air - that which they seek. "I always go to Folkestone," I have more than once heard from people when the perennial topic of the annual holiday has come up, and the words are an eloquent tribute to the attractions of the place.
#13
Hampton Court
1915
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#14
Hereford
1912
#15
Hastings and Neighourhood
2015
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#16
The Isle of Wight
1911
This early work by the great welsh poet Edward Thomas was originally published in 1911 and details his travels around The Isle of Wight. Philip Edward Thomas was born in Lambeth, London, England in 1878. His parents were Welsh migrants, and Thomas attended several schools, before ending up at St. Pauls. Thomas led a reclusive early life, and began writing as a teenager. He published his first book, The Woodland Life (1897), at the age of just nineteen. A year later, he won a history scholarship to Lincoln College, Oxford. Despite being less well-known than other World War I poets, Thomas is regarded by many critics as one of the finest.
#17
The New Forest
1912
In these modern days, when towns are increasing on every side, and the new idea of garden cities threatens to swallow up what little is left us of the true country, it is good to remember that in one quiet corner of Hampshire lies a sanctuary, a little region set apart with its own laws and customs for over eight centuries for the preservation of wild life.
#19
Oxford Beautiful England
2008
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#20
The Peak District
2015
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#21
Ripon and Harrogate
1914
#23
Shakespeareland
2013
Shakespeare-land (1910). This book, "Shakespeare-land," by Walter Jerrold, E.W. Haslehust, is a replication of a book originally published before 1910. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
#24
Swanage and District
1915
#25
The Thames
2012
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#26
Warwick and Leamington
1913
\[The heart of Beautiful England is woody Warwickshire, and the heart of woody Warwickshire is leafy Leamington. To these two towns on the ever-green skirts of the now seared and wasting remnants of the once great Forest of Arden - the one so reminiscent of the coloured age, of Shakespeare, of Queen Elizabeth, of half-timbered dwelling, of picturesque gable, of shady penthouse, of ever-living poesy, made by the Prince of the Line; the other so sweet, clean, leafy, and spick and span, and as modern as my Lady\[s newest creation in costumes from gay Paris - all people gravitate from the farthermost corners of the earth, from Dan to Beersheba, from China to Peru. \[
#27
The Heart of Wessex
1910
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#29
Windsor Castle
1910
Celebrated places make a strong and often a visual impression upon the mind before they are seen either in reality or in picture. Windsor Castle, especially from the west and at some little distance, is one of those which confirm and even augment, when first seen, the mysterious vision of the imagination. Seen from the flat meadows of Clewer on a moist morning, when thrushes are singing in the elms, Windsor Castle rises up like a cloud in the east, with nothing behind, or on either side of it, but a sky of dull silver, and nothing below but the smoke wreaths of the town gently and separately ascending. It is like a cloud, a huge soft cloud, without motion yet full of change; and it is presently resolved into the predominant Round Tower, and\[6\] on one side of it the perpendicularly carved St. George's Chapel and the Curfew Tower, on the other side the cliffy, long front of the State Apartments. Even thus clear, the buildings are as remote as a cloud in a mental atmosphere of time and undefined associations.
#30
York
2015
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Authors
R. Murray Gilchrist
Author · 6 books
Robert Murray Gilchrist was born in Sheffield, England in 1867. He never married and throughout his life lived mostly in remote places, including the North Derbyshire village of Holmesfield and a remote part of the Peak District. He began his writing career in 1890 with a novel, Passion the Plaything, and would go on to publish a total of 22 novels, six story collections, four regional interest books, and a play. His stories appeared in many popular periodicals of that era, including The Temple Bar and the decadent journal The Yellow Book. Not much is known about Gilchrist’s personal life, but he is known to have lived for a time with a male companion, and given that Gilchrist never married and sometimes featured homoerotic themes in his work, as in the story ‘My Friend’, it is possible he was homosexual. Though well known today to connoisseurs of weird and Decadent fiction, Gilchrist’s story collection The Stone Dragon and Other Tragic Romances was generally poorly received by critics on its initial appearance in 1894, and following the book’s failure, Gilchrist chose to write in other genres. It was not until Hugh Lamb began anthologizing some of Gilchrist’s work in the 1970s that he began to be rediscovered. Now he is ranked by many alongside other fin de siècle practitioners of weird fiction, including Vernon Lee, Arthur Machen, and Eric Stenbock and The Stone Dragon is a volume highly sought-after by collectors. During World War I, Gilchrist was noted for his charitable assistance to Belgian refugees, many of whom attended his funeral after his death in 1917. -Valancourt Books
William Danks
Author · 1 books
Canon William Danks (1845- 1916) was Archdeacon of Richmond from 1894 until 1907.
Arthur Leslie Salmon
Author · 2 books
Arthur L. Salmon (1865-1952)
G.E. Mitton
Author · 2 books
Geraldine Edith Mitton (14 October 1868 – 25 March 1955), pen name G.E. Mitton, was an English novelist, biographer, editor, and guide-book writer. She was the third wife of the colonial administrator Sir George Scott, collaborated with him on several novels set in Burma, and wrote his biography.
A.G. Bradley
Author · 1 books
Arthur Granville Bradley (1850 - 1943) was an English historian, traveller and biographer. Educated at Trinity College Cambridge, he travelled to the US and spent several years farming in Virginia, before returning to Britain and taking post as a colonial agent. Between 1895 and 1926 he devoted himself to writing, with over twenty books published in this period; ‘Wolfe’, published in 1895, was his first.
George Benson
Author · 1 books
Librarian Note: There are more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
Sidney Heath
Author · 5 books
Sidney Heath was an artist, illustrator and author.
E.W. Haslehust
Author · 2 books
Ernest William Haslehust (1866 -1949) trained at the Slade School of Art & was a prolific painter of British landscapes in watercolour. Haslehust is perhaps best remembered for illustrating 36 volumes of the well-known "Beautiful England" series of travel books published by Blackie and Son Limited.
Edward Thomas
Author · 17 books
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Philip Edward Thomas was an Anglo-Welsh writer of prose and poetry. He is commonly considered a war poet, although few of his poems deal directly with his war experiences. Already an accomplished writer, Thomas turned to poetry only in 1914. He enlisted in the army in 1915, and was killed in action during the Battle of Arras in 1917, soon after he arrived in France. His Works: Poetry collections: Six Poems, under pseudonym Edward Eastaway, Pear Tree Press, 1916. Poems, Holt, 1917. Last Poems, Selwyn & Blount, 1918. Collected Poems, Selwyn & Blount, 1920. Two Poems, Ingpen & Grant, 1927. The Poems of Edward Thomas, R. George Thomas (ed), Oxford University Press, 1978 Poemoj (Esperanto translation), Kris Long (ed & pub), Burleigh Print, Bracknell, Berks, 1979. Edward Thomas: A Mirror of England, Elaine Wilson (ed), Paul & Co., 1985. The Poems of Edward Thomas, Peter Sacks (ed), Handsel Books, 2003. The Annotated Collected Poems, Edna Longley (ed), Bloodaxe Books, 2008. Fiction: The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans (novel), 1913 Essay collections: Horae Solitariae, Dutton, 1902. Oxford, A & C Black, 1903. Beautiful Wales, Black, 1905. The Heart of England, Dutton, 1906. The South Country, Dutton, 1906 (reissued by Tuttle, 1993). Rest and Unrest, Dutton, 1910. Light and Twilight, Duckworth, 1911. The Last Sheaf, Cape, 1928.
