Bradshaw's Guide

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 of London. George Bradshaw initiated the series in 1839; after his death in 1853 the Bradshaw's range of titles continued until 1961.^[1][2]

List of Bradshaw's by geographic coverage

British Isles

1840s–1850s

• Bradshaw's Descriptive Guide to the London & South Western Railway. London: Adams. 1845.
• Bradshaw's Guide through London and its Environs. London: Adams. 1857.
• Bradshaw's Handbook for Tourists in Great Britain & Ireland. London: Adams. 1858.
  • Bradshaw's Handbook for Tourists in Great Britain and Ireland. 1866. + Index

1860s–1870s

• Bradshaw's Descriptive Railway Hand-Book of Great Britain and Ireland. London: W.J. Adams. 1860.
  • Section 2: Berks, Buckingham, Wilts, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Gloucester, the South Wales districts, Oxford, Warwick, Salop, Chester, Flint, Carnarvon, Anglesea and through Ireland
• Bradshaw's Shilling Hand-Book of Great Britain and Ireland, London: W.J. Adams, 1860
  • Section 3: London and North Western, North Stafford, Lancashire and Yorkshire (Western section), Preston, Lancaster, and Carlisle, Ayrshire, Caledonian, and Scotch Railways + Index
• Bradshaw's Monthly Alphabetical Hand-book through London and its Environs, London: W.J. Adams, 1862
• Bradshaw's Descriptive Railway Hand-Book of Great Britain and Ireland, 1870
  • Section 1: Kent, Sussex, Hants, Dorset, Devon, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Wight + Index
• Bradshaw's Illustrated Handbook for Tourists in Great Britain and Ireland. 1876.
  • Section 1: (London and southern England)

1880s–1900s

• Bradshaw's Handbook for Tourists in Great Britain and Ireland. London: W.J. Adams. 1882.
  • Section 1
• Bradshaw's Through Routes to the Capitals of the World and Overland Guide to India, Persia, and the Far East: A Handbook of Indian, Colonial and Foreign Travel (1903)
• Henry de Salis (1904). Bradshaw's Canals and Navigable Waterways of England and Wales. London: Henry Blacklock.

France

• Bradshaw's Illustrated Guide through Paris and its Environs, London: W.J. Adams and Sons, 1880, OCLC 19043482
• Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to France, London: W.J. Adams and Sons, c. 1889
• J.W.C. Hughes (1896), Bradshaw's Hand-book to Brittany, London: W.J. Adams & Sons
• Bradshaw's Hand-book to Normandy and the Channel Islands, London: W.J. Adams & Sons, 1896

Germany and Austria

• Bradshaw's Notes for Travellers in Tyrol and Vorarlberg, London: W.J. Adams & Sons, c. 1873
• Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to Germany, London: W.J. Adams & Sons, 1873 + Index
• Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to Germany. London: W.J. Adams & Sons. 1876.
• Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book for Belgium and the Rhine; and Portions of Rhenish Germany, London: W.J. Adams & Sons, 1896 + Index
• Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to Germany and Austria, London: W.J. Adams & Sons, 1896 + Index
  • 1898 ed. + index

India

• Bradshaw's Hand-Book to the Bengal Presidency, and Western Provinces of India. London: W.J. Adams. 1864.
• Bradshaw's Hand-Book to the Bombay Presidency and North-Western Provinces of India. London: W.J. Adams. 1864.
• Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-Book to the Madras Presidency, and the Central Provinces of India. London: W.J. Adams. 1864.

Italy

• J.R. Morell, ed. (1870), Bradshaw's Pedestrian Route-book for Switzerland, Chamouni, and the Italian Lakes, London: W.J. Adams, OCLC 1659797
• Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to Italy, London: W.J. Adams & Sons, 1894 + Index

Syria

• Bradshaw's Hand-Book to the Turkish Empire, 2: Syria & Palestine, London: W.J. Adams, c. 1873

Turkey

• Bradshaw's Hand-Book to the Turkish Empire, 1: Turkey in Europe, London: W.J. Adams, c. 1872 + Index

List of Bradshaw's by date of publication

1830s–1840s

• Bradshaw's Railway Time Tables and Assistant to Railway Travelling, 1839^[3]
• Bradshaw's Railway Companion, 1840^[3]
• Bradshaw's Monthly Railway Guide, 1841^[3]
• Bradshaw's Descriptive Guide to the London & South Western Railway. London: Adams. 1845.
• Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, 1847^[3]

1850s–1860s

• Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book for Travellers in Belgium, London: W.J. Adams, 1856
• Bradshaw's Guide through London and its Environs. London: Adams. 1857.
• Bradshaw's Handbook for Tourists in Great Britain & Ireland. London: Adams. 1858.
• Bradshaw's Shilling Hand-Book of Great Britain and Ireland, 1860
• Bradshaw's Hand-Book to the Bengal Presidency, and Western Provinces of India. London: W.J. Adams. 1864.
• Bradshaw's Hand-Book to the Bombay Presidency and North-Western Provinces of India. London: W.J. Adams. 1864.
• Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-Book to the Madras Presidency, and the Central Provinces of India. London: W.J. Adams. 1864.
• Bradshaw's Handbook for Tourists in Great Britain and Ireland. 1866.

1870s–1880s

• Bradshaw's Descriptive Railway Hand-Book of Great Britain and Ireland, 1870 + Index
• J.R. Morell, ed. (1870), Bradshaw's Pedestrian Route-book for Switzerland, Chamouni, and the Italian Lakes, London: W.J. Adams, OCLC 1659797
• Bradshaw's Hand-Book to the Turkish Empire, 1: Turkey in Europe, London: W.J. Adams, c. 1872
• Bradshaw's Hand-Book to the Turkish Empire, 2: Syria & Palestine, London: W.J. Adams, c. 1873
• Bradshaw's Illustrated Travellers' Hand-Book to France, London: W.J. Adams, c. 1873
• Bradshaw's Notes for Travellers in Tyrol and Vorarlberg, London: W.J. Adams & Sons, end of 1883/beginning 1984 Check date values in: |date= (help)
• Bradshaw's Illustrated Guide through Paris and its Environs, London: W.J. Adams and Sons, 1880, OCLC 19043482
• Bradshaw's Monthly Continental Railway, Steam Transit, and General Guide, for Travellers Through Europe. London: Adams & Sons. July 1887.
• Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to France, London: W.J. Adams and Sons, c. 1889

1890s–1900s

• Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to Italy, London: W.J. Adams & Sons, 1894
• Richard Stephen Charnock (1894), Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to Spain and Portugal, W.J. Adams & Sons, OCLC 36885426
• Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book for Belgium and the Rhine; and Portions of Rhenish Germany, London: W.J. Adams & Sons, 1896
• J.W.C. Hughes (1896), Bradshaw's Hand-book to Brittany, London: W.J. Adams & Sons
• Bradshaw's Hand-book to Normandy and the Channel Islands, London: W.J. Adams & Sons, 1896
• Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to Germany and Austria, London: W.J. Adams & Sons, 1896
• Henry de Salis (1904). Bradshaw's Canals and Navigable Waterways of England and Wales. London: Henry Blacklock.
• Bradshaw's Through Routes to the Capitals of the World, and Overland Guide to India, Persia, and the Far East. London: Henry Blacklock. 1903.

References

1. John Leighton (3 November 1906), "Early Railway Guides: a Retrospective", Chambers's Journal, 9
2. "Bradshaw Legacy". Bradshaw's Guides. UK: Old House Books & Maps. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
3. "George Bradshaw", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica Co., 1910, OCLC 14782424