$39.25
- Hardcover
512 pages
- Release Date
9 January 2012
Summary
A facsimile edition of Bradshaw’s Handbook of 1863, the book that inspired the BBC television series ‘Great British Railway Journeys’.
When Michael Portillo began the series ‘Great British Railway Journeys’, a well-thumbed 150-year-old book shot back to fame. 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 tou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781908402028 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1908402024 |
| Author: | George Bradshaw |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Old House Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Edition: | Facsimile edition |
| Release Date: | 9 January 2012 |
| Weight: | 507g |
| Dimensions: | 182mm x 142mm x 40mm |
| Series: | Old House |
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About The Author
George Bradshaw
George Bradshaw (1801-1853) was an English cartographer, printer, and publisher, most famous for developing a series of railway timetables and guides. These books became synonymous with their 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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