Murray's Handbooks for Travellers

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Murray's Handbooks for Travellers were travel guide books published in London by John Murray beginning in 1836. [1] 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." [2] The guidebooks became popular enough to appear in works of fiction such as Charles Lever's Dodd Family Abroad. [3] 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.

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Cover of Handbook for Travellers in Turkey, 1871

List of Murray's Handbooks by date of publication

1830s

1840s

1850s

1860s

1870s

1880s

1890s

1900s

1910s

List of Murray's Handbooks by geographic coverage

Algeria

Belgium

Egypt

France

Germany

Great Britain

England

East Midlands region
  • Handbook for Travellers in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and Staffordshire (3rd ed.), London: J. Murray, 1892, OCLC   2097091, OL   6924846M + Index
  • Handbook for Northamptonshire and Rutland (2nd ed.), London, Edwards Stanford, 1901.
East of England region
London region
North West England region
  • Handbook for Lancashire, London: J. Murray, 1880, OCLC   2167424, OL   6924853M
  • Handbook for Westmorland, Cumberland, and the lakes (2nd ed.), London: J. Murray, 1869, OCLC   5358890
South East England region
South West England region
West Midlands region
Yorkshire and the Humber region

Scotland

  • Handbook for Travellers in Scotland (4th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1875, OCLC   4658476, OL   6933923M

Wales

Greece

India

Ireland

Italy

Japan

Portugal

Russia

Scandinavia

Spain

Switzerland

Syria

Turkey

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