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Baedeker Guides are travel guide books published by the Karl Baedeker firm of Germany beginning in the 1830s. [1] [2] ... Belgium and Holland (10th ed.), ...
Cook's Tourists' Handbooks were a series of travel guide books for tourists published in the 19th-20th centuries by Thomas Cook & Son of London. The firm's founder, Thomas Cook , produced his first handbook to England in the 1840s, later expanding to Europe, Near East, North Africa, and beyond.
Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-Book for Travellers in Belgium, 1856 Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, 1891 Bradshaw's Handbook for Tourists in Great Britain and Ireland, 1882. Bradshaw's was a series of railway timetables and travel guide books published by W.J. Adams and later Henry Blacklock, both of London.
Ward & Lock's Illustrated Guide to and Popular History of the Isle of Man, 1883. Ward Lock travel guides or Red Guides (1870s–1970s) were tourist guide books to the British Isles and continental Europe published by Ward, Lock & Co. of London. [1] The firm proclaimed them "amusing and readable" and the "cheapest and most trustworthy guides."
This book provided the seeds for Baedeker's own travel guides. After Johann August Klein (1778–1831) died and the book went out of print, Baedeker decided to publish a new edition, incorporating some of Klein's material but also added many of his own ideas into what he thought a travel guide should offer the traveller or reader.
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. [1] The series covered tourist destinations in Europe and parts of Asia and northern Africa.