A Bibliography of Murray's Handbooks for Travellers, and Biographies of Authors, Editors, Revisers and Principal Contributors

Crafting a “Species of Literature”: John Murray’s Multidisciplinary, Polyvocal Handbooks for Travellers

“…John Murray III developed the first three Handbook titles using notes, letters, and translations from his travels in Europe during the late 1820s and throughout the 1830s. But while the authorship of these early Handbook editions is less complicated than what would follow in the mid-1840s, their content was already interdisciplinary and multimodal (it is worth mentioning that Murray's authorship of the original Handbooks was not known until fifty years later; the appellation "Murray" signified the publishing house, not the person 9 ). The Handbooks include a wealth of historical and cultural information, as well as details about geological features of a region and royal family trees, suggestions for viewing factories or manufacturing plants, and incredibly robust art and architectural histories.…”