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- ↑ Caviezel, Michel (1877), Guide Books for English Tourists Published by Edward Stanford (advert)
- ↑ Stanford's Two-Shilling Series of Tourists' Guides (adverts), 1883
- ↑ "Stanford's Guide Books for Tourists, 1892 (advert)". Publishers' Circular. 1892.
- ↑ Worth, R.N. (1889). Tourist's Guide to Worcestershire (1st ed.). London: Edward Stanford.
- ↑ Dave Russell (2004), Looking North: Northern England and the National Imagination, Manchester University Press, ISBN 9780719051777
- ↑ Worth, R.N. (1889). Tourist's Guide to Worcestershire (1st ed.). London: London: Stanford.