Black's Guides

Black's Guide to Yorkshire, 1862

Black's Guides were travel guide books published by the Adam and Charles Black firm of Edinburgh (later London) beginning in 1839.^[1] The series' style tended towards the "colloquial, with fewer cultural pretensions" than its leading competitor Baedeker Guides.^[2] Contributors included David T. Ansted, Charles Bertram Black, and A.R. Hope Moncrieff.

List of Black's Guides by geographic coverage

Egypt

• Eustace A. Reynolds-Ball (1907), Cairo of To-Day (5th ed.), London: Adam & Charles Black

France

• 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

1830s-1850s

• 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's Picturesque Tourist of Scotland (9th ed.), Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1852^[4]

• Llewellynn Jewitt, ed. (1857). Black's Tourist's Guide to Derbyshire (2nd ed.). Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. + index

1860s-1870s

• 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

• London and its Environs, Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1862, OCLC 1995082
  • 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, OCLC 2207555. 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

• 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 + index

• A.R. Hope Moncrieff, ed. (1898), Black's Guide to Sussex and Its Watering-places (11th ed.), London: Adam and Charles Black

1900s-1910s

• 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

• 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, OCLC 222486033

• 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, OCLC 43328746
• L. E. Walter, ed. (1919), Black's Guide to Isle of Man, London: A. & C. Black

Ireland

• E. D. Jordan (1906), Black's Guide to Ireland (24th ed.), London: Adam and Charles Black

Italy

• Black's Guide to Italy, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1869

Netherlands

• C.B. Black (1908). Holland: its Rail, Tram, and Waterways (3rd ed.). London: Adam and Charles Black.

Norway

• John Bowden, ed. (1867). Black's Guide to Norway. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black.

Switzerland

• C.B. Black (1876), Guide to Switzerland and the Italian Lakes, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black

Turkey

• Demetrius Coufopoulos (1910), Guide to Constantinople (4th ed.), London: Adam and Charles Black

References

1. Alexander Nicolson, ed. (1885), Memoirs of Adam Black (2nd ed.), Edinburgh: A. and C. Black
2. Sara Blair (2004). "Local Modernity, Global Modernism: Bloomsbury and the Places of the Literary". English Literary History 71.
3. "New Books". Scottish Geographical Magazine. August 1888.
4. Katherine Halda Grenier (2005). Tourism And Identity in Scotland, 1770-1914: Creating Caledonia. Ashgate Publishing.