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Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. series list to front, frontis. illustration, titles & list of pictures; The visitation of Yorkshire for the King’s England series was completed in the early months of the Hitler War and is a picture of the county as it was before the aerial bombardment of the Island. It is not possible here to take note of changes the war has brought about in some churches and other buildings; this book stands as a record of Yorkshire before the Blitzkrieg. Includes a b/w. fold out map of Yorkshire to the rear.

Arthur Henry Mee (21 July 1875 – 27 May 1943) was an English writer, journalist, and educator. He is best known for The Harmsworth Self-Educator, The Children’s Encyclopædia, The Children’s Newspaper, and The King’s England. The tone is looking back to the years immediately after the Great War, even during publication of volumes in the 1940s.

Mee left school at 14 to join a local newspaper, where he became an editor by age 20. He contributed many non-fiction articles to magazines and joined the staff of The Daily Mail in 1898. He was made literary editor five years later.

In 1903 he began working for publisher Alfred Harmsworth’s Amalgamated Press. He was appointed general editor of The Harmsworth Self-Educator (1905–1907), in collaboration with John Hammerton.

In 1908 he began work on The Children’s Encyclopædia, which came out as a fortnightly magazine. The series was published and bound in eight volumes soon afterwards, and later expanded to ten volumes. After the success of The Children’s Encyclopædia, he started the first newspaper published for children, the weekly Children’s Newspaper, which was published until 1965.

Mee also wrote London – Heart of the Empire and Wonder of the World, which became a very popular book.

Although he made money from these works, he did not receive a fair share.

He had a large house built overlooking the hills near Eynsford in Kent. Its development from design to the final building was depicted in later editions of The Children’s Encyclopædia.

Mee had one child, but, despite his work, declared that he had no particular affinity with children. His works for them suggest that his interest was in trying to encourage the raising of a generation of patriotic and moral citizens. He came from a Baptist upbringing, and supported the temperance movement.