Bradshaw's Guide

Bradshaw's were 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

• 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 for Belgium and the Rhine; and Portions of Rhenish Germany, London: W.J. Adams & Sons, 1896  + Index

• Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to Germany, London: W.J. Adams & Sons, 1873  + 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. 

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