This beautiful and informative volume, inspired by the pioneering 1906 A&C Black book The English Lakes, offers a new way of looking at the landscape and social history of a much-loved region. Every painting from the original book has been rescanned and enlarged, presenting them as they have not been seen for a hundred years.

Opposite each painting is a page containing full-colour images relating to the painting, from period maps and postcards to paintings and railway tickets, together with a text placing the painting in its contemporary context.

The new introduction sets the historical scene for a bustling Lake District where newly-burgeoning tourism sits side-by-side with traditional rural life, at a time when many Edwardians believed that life was about as good as it could get.

The introduction is written by Bill Birkett and Jane Renouf, both well-known Lake District authors. Bill, who lives in Langdale, is also one of Britain’s foremost mountain writers; Jane, who lives in Ambleside, founded the Lake District Oral History Archive and is the author of Alfred Heaton Cooper’s biography.

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75 paintings by Alfred Heaton Cooper

Introduction by Bill Birkett and Jane Renouf

Text by Colin Inman and Rosemary Anderson

Worth Press Ltd, October 2006

270mm x 245mm

176 pages in full colour

£14.99

ISBN  978 1 903025 44 4