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.
1830s
A Hand-Book for Travellers on the Continent (Northern Germany) (1sted.), London: John Murray and Son, 1836, OCLC1039483584
A Hand-Book for Travellers on the Continent (Southern Germany) (1sted.), London: John Murray and Son, 1837
A Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland (1sted.), London: J. Murray and Son, 1838, OCLC794649338
A Hand-Book for Travellers on the Continent (Northern Germany) (2nded.), London: John Murray and Son, 1838, OCLC2030550, OL22881568M
A Hand-Book for Travellers on the Continent (Northern Germany) (3rded.), London: J. Murray and Son, 1839, OL23546118M
1840s
A Hand-Book for Travellers in the Ionian Islands, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, and Constantinople, London: J. Murray, 1840, OCLC397597, OL6952607M[4] (Index)
A Hand-Book for Travellers on the Continent (Northern Germany) (4thed.), London: J. Murray, 1841, OCLC222901979
Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy, London: J. Murray and Son, 1843, OL6597087M
A Hand-book for Travellers in the Ionian Islands, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, and Constantinople (2nded.), London: J. Murray, 1845, OCLC397597, OL6952607M
A Hand-Book for Travellers on the Continent (Northern Germany) (5thed.), London: J. Murray, 1845, OCLC2172798, OL6569519M
A Handbook for Travellers in Berks, Bucks, and Oxfordshire, London: J. Murray, 1860, OCLC2099710, OL6924857M
A Handbook for Travellers in South Wales, London: J. Murray, 1860, OCLC2094865, OL6924864M
A Handbook for Travellers in France (8thed.), London: J. Murray, 1861, OL24627024M
Handbook for Travellers in Ireland (2nded.), London: J. Murray, 1866, OCLC2013636, OL6936234M
A Handbook of Rome and its Environs (8thed.), London: J. Murray, 1867, OCLC4038432, OL23302746M
A Handbook for Travellers in North Wales (3rded.), London: J. Murray, 1868, OCLC2109683, OL6924865M
Hand-book for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland (2nded.), London: J. Murray, 1868, OL23414674M
A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy (6thed.), London: J. Murray, 1868, OL23389358M
A Hand-book for Travellers on the Continent (16thed.), London: J. Murray, 1868, OL23423054M
Handbook for Westmorland, Cumberland, and the lakes (2nded.), London: J. Murray, 1869, OCLC5358890
1870s
Handbook for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire .., London: J. Murray, 1870, OL14010753M
Handbook for Shropshire, Cheshire and Lancashire, London: J. Murray, 1870, OCLC2109674, OL6924861M
A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent: Being a Guide to Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Northern Germany, and the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland (17thed.), London: J. Murray, 1871, OCLC5358857, OL6936276M
Handbook for Travellers in Greece (5thed.), London: J. Murray, 1884, OCLC2832159, OL6949054M
A Handbook of Rome and its Environs (14thed.), London: J. Murray, 1888, OL23378173M
1890s
R. Lambert Playfair (1890), Handbook for Travellers in Algeria and Tunis (4thed.), London: J. Murray, OCLC12720545, OL14045975M
Handbook for Travellers in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and Staffordshire .. (3rded.), London: J. Murray, 1892, OCLC2097091, OL6924846M
R. Lambert Playfair (1892), Handbook to the Mediterranean (3rd reviseded.), London: John Murray, OCLC6853896Pt.1; Pt. 2
R. Lambert Playfair (1895), Handbook for Travellers in Algeria and Tunis (5thed.), London: J. Murray, OCLC4443952, OL6953677M
John Cooke (1906), Handbook for Travellers in Ireland (7thed.), London: Edward Stanford, OL24591180M (Cover title: Murray's Handbook Ireland)
Basil Hall Chamberlain; W.B. Mason (1907), A Handbook for Travellers in Japan including the whole empire from Saghalien to Formosa (8thed.), London: J. Murray, OCLC1329108, OL6991983M
Handbook for Travellers on the Continent: Being a Guide to Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Northern Germany, and the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland (17thed.), London: J. Murray, 1871, OCLC5358857, OL6936276M
Handbook for Travellers in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and Staffordshire (3rded.), London: J. Murray, 1892, OCLC2097091, OL6924846M + Index
Handbook for Travellers in Scotland (4thed.), London: J. Murray, 1875, OCLC4658476, OL6933923M
Wales
A Handbook for Travellers in South Wales, London: J. Murray, 1860, OCLC2094865, OL6924864M
A Handbook for Travellers in North Wales (3rded.), London: J. Murray, 1868, OCLC2109683, OL6924865M
Greece
A Hand-book for Travellers in the Ionian Islands, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, and Constantinople, London: J. Murray, 1840, OCLC397597, OL6952607M
A Hand-book for Travellers in the Ionian Islands, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, and Constantinople (2nded.), London: J. Murray, 1845, OCLC397597, OL6952607M + Index
Handbook for Travellers in Greece, London: J. Murray, 1854, OL23389359M
Basil Hall Chamberlain; W.B. Mason (1907), A Handbook for Travellers in Japan including the whole empire from Saghalien to Formosa (8thed.), London: J. Murray, OCLC1329108, OL6991983M
A Hand-book for Travellers in the Ionian Islands, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, and Constantinople, London: J. Murray, 1840, OCLC397597, OL6952607M
A Hand-book for Travellers in the Ionian Islands, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, and Constantinople, London: J. Murray, 1845, OCLC397597, OL6952607M + Index
A Handbook for Travellers in Turkey (3rded.), London: J. Murray, 1854, OCLC2145740, OL6952606M. (Index).
R. Lambert Playfair (1882), Handbook to the Mediterranean (2nd reviseded.), London: John Murray Pt. 1
R. Lambert Playfair (1892), Handbook to the Mediterranean (3rd reviseded.), London: John Murray, OCLC6853896Pt.1; Pt. 2
Rudy Koshar (July 1998). "'What Ought to Be Seen': Tourists' Guidebooks and National Identities in Modern Germany and Europe". Journal of Contemporary History. 33.
E. W. Gilbert (1945). "Richard Ford and His 'Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain'". Geographical Journal. 106 (3/4): 144–151. doi:10.2307/1789266. JSTOR1789266.
J.R. Hale (2005), England and the Italian Renaissance (4thed.), Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., ISBN9780631233640, Francis Palgrave ... author of the first edition of Murray's Handbook for Travellers in North Italy
Peter H. Hansen (1995). "Albert Smith, the Alpine Club, and the Invention of Mountaineering in Mid-Victorian Britain". Journal of British Studies. 34 (3): 300–324. doi:10.1086/386080. JSTOR175982. S2CID162720571.