$100.24
- Hardcover
512 pages
- Release Date
10 October 2012
Summary
A luxury facsimile edition of Bradshaw’s Handbook of 1863, the book that inspired the BBC television series ‘Great British Railway Journeys’.
The original Bradshaw’s guides had been well known to Victorian travellers and were produced when the British railway network was at its peak and as tourism by rail became essential. It was the first national tourist guide specifically organised around railway journeys, and this luxury leather-bound facsimile edition is a true c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781908402486 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1908402482 |
| Author: | George Bradshaw |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Old House Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Edition: | Premium ed |
| Release Date: | 10 October 2012 |
| Weight: | 817g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 138mm x 44mm |
| Series: | Shire |
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About The Author
George Bradshaw
George Bradshaw (1801-1853) was an English cartographer, printer, and publisher. He is most famous for developing a series of railway timetables and guides. The books became synonymous with its publisher so that, for Victorians and Edwardians alike, a railway timetable was ‘a Bradshaw’. After his death Punch magazine said of Bradshaw’s labours: ‘seldom has the gigantic intellect of man been employed upon a work of greater utility.’
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