Ward Lock travel guides

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Ward & Lock's Illustrated Guide to and Popular History of the Isle of Man, 1883

Ward Lock travel guides or Red Guides (1870s–1970s) were tourist

Methuen & Co.'s Little Guides, the Ward Lock guides emphasized "travel practicalities."[4]

List of Ward Lock guides by geographic coverage

Belgium

England

  • Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Felixstowe. 1910.
  • Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Aldeburgh. 1911.

London region

  • Leeds and its Vicinity.[2]
  • Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Harrogate. Ward, Lock & Bowden. 1894.
  • Yorkshire coast from Hornsea to Redcar, including Bridlington, Filey, Scarborough, Robin Hood's Bay, Whitby, Saltburn. 1960.
  • Bridlington, Flamborough, Filey, Scarborough, Hornsea. 1924.

France

  • Riviera, Nice, Cannes, Mentone, Monte Carlo, Monaco, Hyères, Genoa, &c.[5]
  • Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to the Channel Islands: with short excursions to Brittany and Normandy. 1902.
  • Guide to Paris and its Environs (7th ed.). Paris: W.H. Smith & Son. 1913.
  • Handbook to Paris and its Environs (11th ed.). London: Ward, Lock & Co. c. 1922.

Ireland

Italy

Netherlands

Scotland

Switzerland

Wales

References

  1. ^ "Ward Lock & Co's Illustrated Guide Books for Collectors and Enthusiasts". UK: Runela. Archived from the original on November 8, 2005. Retrieved 31 August 2013.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Buckingham, James Silk; Sterling, John; Maurice, Frederick Denison; Stebbing, Henry; Dilke, Charles Wentworth; Hervey, Thomas Kibble; Dixon, William Hepworth; MacColl, Norman; Rendall, Vernon Horace; Murry, John Middleton (3 June 1882), "Ward & Lock's Tourists' Pictorial Guide Books (advert)", The Athenaeum
  3. ^ a b c d "Ward Lock & Co.,'s Illustrated Guide Books (advert)", Publishers' Circular, 16 April 1892