MURRAY'S HANDBOOKS FOR TRAVELLERS (JOHN MURRAY)
Series Note: Murray's Handbooks for Travellers (often referred to just as Murray's Handbooks) was a popular early series of travel guide books that covered tourist destinations in Europe and sections of Asia and northern Africa.
This series influenced the development of the Baedeker's travel guides in Germany.
Select list of titles arranged by publication date
1830s
A Hand-book for Travellers on the Continent (2nd ed.), London: John Murray and Son, 1838.
A Hand-book for Travellers on the Continent (3rd ed.), London: J. Murray and Son, 1839.
1840s
A Hand-book for Travellers in the Ionian Islands, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, and Constantinople, London: J. Murray, 1840.
Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy, London: J. Murray and Son, 1843.
Richard Ford, A Handbook for Travellers in Spain, London: J. Murray, 1845.
A Hand-book for Travellers in the Ionian Islands, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, and Constantinople (2nd ed.), London: J. Murray, 1845.
A Hand-book for Travellers on the Continent (5th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1845.
Gardner Wilkinson, Hand-book for Travellers in Egypt, J. Murray, 1847.
Hand-book for Travellers in France (3rd ed.), London: Murray, 1848.
Hand-book for Northern Europe, London: John Murray, 1849 v.2 Finland and Russia.
1850s
Octavian Blewitt, A Hand-book for Travellers in Central Italy (2nd ed.), London: J. Murray, 1850.
Peter Cunningham, Handbook of London, London: John Murray, 1850.
A Hand-book for Travellers in Devon & Cornwall .., London: J. Murray, 1851.
Murray's Handbook for Modern London, London: John Murray, 1851.
Murray's Handbook for Belgium and the Rhine, London: J. Murray, 1852.
Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy (3rd ed.), London: J. Murray, 1853.
Handbook for Travellers in Greece, London: J. Murray, 1854
A Handbook for Travellers in Turkey (3rd ed.), London: J. Murray, 1854.
Richard Ford, A Handbook for Travellers in Spain (3rd ed.), London: J. Murray, 1855.
Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy (4th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1857.
A Handbook for Travellers in France (6th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1858.
A Handbook for Travellers in Kent and Sussex, London: J. Murray, 1858.
Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine, London: J. Murray, 1858.
Handbook for Travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire and Somersetshire, London: J. Murray, 1859.
A Handbook for India, London: J. Murray, 1859.
1860s
A Handbook for Travellers in Berks, Bucks, and Oxfordshire, London: J. Murray, 1860.
A Handbook for Travellers in South Wales, London: J. Murray, 1860.
A Handbook for Travellers in France (8th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1861.
Handbook for Travellers in Ireland (2nd ed.), London: J. Murray, 1866.
A Handbook of Rome and its Environs (8th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1867.
A Handbook for Travellers in North Wales (3rd ed.), London: J. Murray, 1868.
Hand-book for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland (2nd ed.), London: J. Murray, 1868.
A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy (6th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1868.
A Hand-book for Travellers on the Continent (16th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1868.
1870s
Handbook for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire .., London: J. Murray, 1870.
Handbook for Shropshire, Cheshire and Lancashire, London: J. Murray, 1870.
A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent: Being a Guide to Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Northern Germany, and the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland (17th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1871.
Handbook to London as it is, London: J. Murray, 1871.
A Handbook for Travellers in Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, and Herefordshire .., London: J. Murray, 1872.
Handbook for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire (2nd ed.), London: J. Murray, 1875.
Handbook for Travellers in Portugal (3rd ed.), London: J. Murray, 1875.
Handbook for Travellers in Scotland (4th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1875.
Handbook for Travellers in Holland and Belgium (19th ed.), London: Murray, 1876.
James Thorne, Handbook to the environs of London, London: John Murray, 1876.
Handbook for England and Wales, London: J. Murray, 1878.
Handbook of the Madras Presidency (2nd ed.), London: J. Murray, 1879. (Includes guide to Madras City.)
Handbook for Visitors to Paris, London: Murray, 1879.
Handbook to London as it is, London: J. Murray, 1879.
1880s
Handbook for Lancashire, London: J. Murray, 1880, OCLC 2167424
Handbook of the Bombay Presidency with an Account of Bombay City (2nd ed.), London: J. Murray, 1881, OCLC 2094004
Handbook of the Bengal Presidency with an Account of Calcutta City, London: J. Murray, 1882, OCLC 2093946
Handbook for Travellers in Yorkshire (3rd ed.), London: J. Murray.
R. Lambert Playfair, Handbook to the Mediterranean (2nd revised ed.), London: John Murray, 1892.
Handbook for Travellers in Denmark, with Sleswig and Holstein, and Iceland (5th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1883.
Handbook for Travellers in Greece (5th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1884.
A Handbook of Rome and its Environs (14th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1888.
1890s
R. Lambert Playfair, Handbook for Travellers in Algeria and Tunis (4th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1890.
Handbook for Travellers in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and Staffordshire .. (3rd ed.), London: J. Murray, 1892.
R. Lambert Playfair, Handbook to the Mediterranean (3rd revised ed.), London: John Murray, 1892.
R. Lambert Playfair, Handbook for Travellers in Algeria and Tunis (5th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1895.
Charles Wilson, ed., Handbook for Travellers in Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Persia, etc., London: J. Murray, 1895.
Hand-book for Travellers in Northern Italy (16th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1897.
A Handbook of Rome and the Campagna (16th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1899.
1900s
Handbook for Travellers in Greece (7th ed.), London: Murray, 1900.
Basil Hall Chamberlain and W. B. Mason, A Handbook for Travellers in Japan (6th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1901.
Basil Hall Chamberlain and W. B. Mason, A Handbook for Travellers in Japan (7th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1903.
Handbook for Travellers in South Germany and Austria (15th ed.). London: J. Murray, 1903.
John Cooke, Handbook for Travellers in Ireland (7th ed.), London: Edward Stanford (Cover title: Murray's Handbook Ireland), 1906.
Basil Hall Chamberlain; W.B. Mason, A Handbook for Travellers in Japan including the Whole Empire from Saghalien to Formosa (8th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1907.
Handbook for Travellers in Constantinople, Brûsa, and the Troad, London: J. Murray, 1907
1910s
A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon (8th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1911.
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