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Murray's Handbooks for Travellers

Travel guides published in London, from 1836

Murray's Handbooks for Travellers
Summary

Travel guides published in London, from 1836

Portrait of publisher John Murray III, 19th century

Murray's Handbooks for Travellers were travel guide books published in London by John Murray beginning in 1836. The series covered tourist destinations in Europe and parts of Asia and northern Africa. According to scholar James Buzard, the Murray style "exemplified the exhaustive rational planning that was as much an ideal of the emerging tourist industry as it was of British commercial and industrial organization generally." The guidebooks became popular enough to appear in works of fiction such as Charles Lever's Dodd Family Abroad. After 1915 the series continued as the Blue Guides and the familiar gold gilted red Murrays Handbooks published by John Murray London including the long running Handbook to India, Pakistan, Ceylon & Burma which concluded with the 21st edition in 1968 before changing from the original format of 1836 to a more modern paperback edition of 1975.

Cover of ''Handbook for Travellers in Turkey,'' 1871

List of Murray's Handbooks by date of publication

1830s

1840s

1850s

1860s

1870s

  • (Includes guide to Madras City)

1880s

1890s

1900s

  • {{cite book
  • (Cover title: Murray's Handbook Ireland)

1910s

List of Murray's Handbooks by geographic coverage

Algeria

Belgium

Egypt

France

Germany

Great Britain

England

[[East Midlands]] region
  • 1874 ed.
  • Handbook for Northamptonshire and Rutland (2nd ed.), London, Edwards Stanford, 1901.
[[East of England]] region
[[Greater London|London]] region
[[North West England]] region
[[South East England]] region
[[South West England]] region
[[West Midlands (region)|West Midlands]] region
[[Yorkshire and the Humber]] region

Scotland

Wales

Greece

India

Ireland

    • Index (Cover title: Murray's Handbook Ireland)

Italy

Japan

Portugal

  • {{Citation |publisher = J. Murray |location = London |title = Handbook for Travellers in Portugal |url = https://archive.org/stream/ahandbookfortra06murrgoog#page/n5/mode/2up |edition=2nd |date = 1856
  • {{Citation |publisher = J. Murray |location = London |title = Handbook for Travellers in Portugal |url = https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100505316 |edition=3rd |date = 1875
  • {{Citation |publisher = J. Murray |location = London |title = Handbook for Travellers in Portugal |series = Murray's hand-book Portugal, Madeira, Azores, and Canaries |url = https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100481840 |edition=4th |date = 1887

Russia

Scandinavia

Spain

  • Pt.1 (Andalucia, Ronda and Granada, Murcia, Valencia, and Catalonia)
  • Pt. 2 (Estremadura, Leon, Gallicia, the Asturias, the Castiles (Old and New), the Basque Provinces, Arragon, and Navarre)
  • . Pt. 2 + Index
  • v.1 (through p.298)
  • v.2

Switzerland

Syria

Turkey

References

References

  1. Rudy Koshar. (July 1998). "'What Ought to Be Seen': Tourists' Guidebooks and National Identities in Modern Germany and Europe". Journal of Contemporary History.
  2. James Buzard. (Autumn 1991). "The Uses of Romanticism: Byron and the Victorian Continental Tour". Victorian Studies.
  3. James Buzard. (January 1993). "A Continent of Pictures: Reflections on the "Europe" of Nineteenth-Century Tourists". PMLA.
  4. Stevan K. Pavlowitch. (June 1962). "Early Nineteenth-Century Serbia in the Eyes of British Travelers". Slavic Review.
  5. E. W. Gilbert. (1945). "Richard Ford and His 'Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain'". Geographical Journal.
  6. J.R. Hale. (2005). "England and the Italian Renaissance". Blackwell Pub..
  7. Peter H. Hansen. (1995). "Albert Smith, the Alpine Club, and the Invention of Mountaineering in Mid-Victorian Britain". Journal of British Studies.
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