Murray's Handbooks for Travellers were travel guide books published in London by John Murray beginning in 1836. 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." The guidebooks became popular enough to appear in works of fiction such as Charles Lever's Dodd Family Abroad. 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.
List of Murray's Handbooks by date of publication
1830s
1840s
(Index)
v.2 Finland and Russia
1850s
1860s
1870s
(Includes guide to Madras City)
1880s
Pt. 1
1890s
Pt.1; Pt. 2
(online at Open Library)
1900s
+ Index
(Cover title: Murray's Handbook Ireland)
1910s
via Hathi Trust. + (Index)
List of Murray's Handbooks by geographic coverage
Algeria
Digitized version
Pt. 1
Pt. 1
Belgium
Egypt
France
+ Index
Germany
+ Index
1871 ed. + Index
+ Index
+ Index
+ Index
Google books version + Index
Great Britain
England
1890 ed.
East Midlands region
+ Index
1874 ed. Handbook for Northamptonshire and Rutland (2nd ed.), London, Edwards Stanford, 1901.
East of England region
+ Index
London region
+ index
North West England region
South East England region
1868 (3rd) edition
1882 ed.
South West England region
. Index
+ Index
+ Index
West Midlands region
+ Index
Yorkshire and the Humber region
+ Index
+ Index
Scotland
Wales
Greece
+ Index
Pt. 1
India
(Includes guide to Madras City) + Index + Index
+ Index
Ireland
+ Index
+ Index (Cover title: Murray's Handbook Ireland)
Italy
+ Index
Japan
+ index
Portugal
+ Index
Russia
. v.2: Finland and Russia
+ Index
Scandinavia
+ Index
1892 ed.
Spain
+ Index
Pt.1 (Andalucia, Ronda and Granada, Murcia, Valencia, and Catalonia) Pt. 2 (Estremadura, Leon, Gallicia, the Asturias, the Castiles (Old and New), the Basque Provinces, Arragon, and Navarre) . Pt. 2 + Index + Index v.1 (through p.298) v.2 + Index
Switzerland
Syria
. Pt. 1; Pt. 2 (p. 291-652); index
. + Index
Turkey
+ Index
. (Index). Pt. 1 Pt.1; Pt. 2 . (Index). 1895 ed. in Google books
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Further reading
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