Black's Guides
Black's Guideswere travelguide bookspublished by theAdam and Charles Blackfirm of Edinburgh (later London) beginning in 1839.[1]The series' style tended towards the "colloquial, with fewer cultural pretensions" than its leading competitorBaedeker Guides.[2]Contributors includedDavid T. Ansted,Charles Bertram Black, and A.R. Hope Moncrieff.
List of Black's Guides by geographic coverage
[edit]Egypt
[edit]France
[edit]- C.B. Black (1885),The South of France: East Half(4th ed.), Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black
- C. B. Black (1887),The Riviera; or, the Coast from Marseilles to Leghorn(3rd ed.), Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black
- C. B. Black (1896),The Riviera; or, the Coast from Marseilles to Leghorn(9th ed.), London: Adam & Charles Black
- C.B. Black (1888).Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage, and Forest Roads.Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black.[3]
Great Britain
[edit]1830s-1850s
[edit]- Black's Economical Tourist of Scotland,Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1839[1]
- Black's Economical Guide Through Glasgow(2nd ed.), Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1843
- Black's Picturesque Tourist and Road and Railway Guide Book through England and Wales(2nd ed.), Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1851
- Black'sPicturesque Tourist of Scotland(9th ed.), Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1852,OL23281882M[4]
- Llewellynn Jewitt, ed. (1857).Black's Tourist's Guide to Derbyshire(2nd ed.). Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black.+index
1860s-1870s
[edit]- Black's Guide to the South-Eastern Counties of England,Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1861
- Black's Picturesque Guide to Yorkshire(2nd ed.), Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1862,OL25125836M
- London and its Environs,Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1862,OCLC1995082,OL23316055M
- Black's Guide to London and its Environs,Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1863
- Where Shall We Go? A Guide to the Healthiest and Most Beautiful Watering Places in the British Islands(4th ed.). Edinburgh: A. and C. Black. 1866.
- David Thomas Ansted,ed. (1870),Black's Guide to Jersey,Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black
- Black's Guide to Liverpool,Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1871
- Black's Guide to Dorsetshire(6th ed.), Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1872
- Black's Guide to England and Wales(10th ed.), Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1872,OCLC2207555,OL6929136M.Index
- Black's Guide to Hampshire,Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1872
- Black's Guide to Warwickshire(3rd ed.), Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1874+Index
- A.E. Lawson Lowe, ed. (1876),Black's Guide to Nottinghamshire,Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black
- David Thomas Ansted,ed. (1879),Black's Guide to the Channel Islands(8th ed.), Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black
- Black's Guide to Kent(8th ed.), Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1879
1880s-1890s
[edit]- Black's Guide to Leamington(5th ed.), Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1880
- Black's Guide to Leamington(6th ed.), Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1883
- Black's Tourists Guide to Scotland(4th ed.), Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1881
- C.B. Black (1883).Car Guide to Jersey and Guernsey.Edinburgh: A. and C. Black.
- Black's Guide to the Counties of Leicester & Rutland,Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1884+Index
- Black's Guide to Harrogate.1885.
- A. R. Hope Moncrieff, ed. (1895),Black's Guide to the Isle of Wight(13th ed.), London: Adam and Charles Black
- Black's Guide to North Wales(21st ed.), London: Adam and Charles Black, 1897
- A. R. Hope Moncrieff, ed. (1898),Black's Guide to Buxton and the Peak Country of Derbyshire(9th ed.), London: Adam and Charles Black, archived from the original on 2013-09-21
{{citation}}:CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)+ - A.R. Hope Moncrieff, ed. (1898),Black's Guide to Sussex and Its Watering-places(11th ed.), London: Adam and Charles Black
1900s-1910s
[edit]- M. J. B. Baddeley,ed. (1900),Black's Shilling Guide to the English Lakes(22nd ed.), London: Adam and Charles Black
- A. R. Hope Moncrieff (1902),Black's Guide to Devonshire(17th ed.), London: A. & C. Black,OL13996679M
- A. R. Hope Moncrieff, ed. (1902),Black's Guide to Exeter and East Devon,London: A. & C. Black
- A. R. Hope Moncrieff, ed. (1903),Black's Guide to the Trossachs, Loch Katrine, Loch Lomond, Etc.(26th ed.), London: Adam and Charles Black
- Black's Guide to Edinburgh(28th ed.), London: Adam and Charles Black, 1910,OCLC222486033,OL24871372M
- G.E. Mitton, ed. (1915),Black's Guide to Glasgow and the Clyde,London:A. & C. Black
- A. R. Hope Moncrieff, ed. (1919),Black's Guide to Cornwall(22nd ed.), London: A. & C. Black,OCLC43328746,OL24931771M
- L. E. Walter, ed. (1919),Black's Guide to Isle of Man,London: A. & C. Black
Ireland
[edit]- E. D. Jordan (1906),Black's Guide to Ireland(24th ed.), London: Adam and Charles Black
Italy
[edit]- Black's Guide to Italy,Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1869
Netherlands
[edit]- C.B. Black (1908).Holland: its Rail, Tram, and Waterways(3rd ed.). London: Adam and Charles Black.
Norway
[edit]- John Bowden, ed. (1867).Black's Guide to Norway.Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black.
Palestine
[edit]- Eustace A. Reynolds-Ball (1912),Jerusalem: A Practical Guide to Jerusalem and Its Environs(2nd ed.), London: Adam and Charles Black
Switzerland
[edit]- C.B. Black (1876),Guide to Switzerland and the Italian Lakes,Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black
Turkey
[edit]- Demetrius Coufopoulos (1910),Guide to Constantinople(4th ed.), London: Adam and Charles Black,OL7046206M
References
[edit]- ^abAlexander Nicolson,ed. (1885),Memoirs of Adam Black(2nd ed.), Edinburgh: A. and C. Black,OL24355448M
- ^Sara Blair (2004). "Local Modernity, Global Modernism: Bloomsbury and the Places of the Literary".English Literary History.71.
- ^"New Books".Scottish Geographical Magazine.August 1888.
- ^Katherine Halda Grenier (2005).Tourism And Identity in Scotland, 1770-1914: Creating Caledonia.Ashgate Publishing.