This isn't a guide book; according to the author, more like an err-and-stray book. But her literary and musical sensibility to the heterogeneous qualities of this English county of mines, moors, churches and willows make her short book (88 pages) in some ways more valuable than a Baedeker style enumeration. It is one of a series, "Vision of England" issued after WW II of which the general editors were the progenitors of Portmeirion. The illustrations consist of a few coloured full-page lithographs, line drawings in the text and several pages of black-and white photographs, some now of historical value. There is a fold-out county map (pre-motorway, of course). ( )