
Collector&s item landmark in the history of the tour guide snapshot of Britain in the 1860s
- Bradshaw&s Handbook deserves a place on the bookshelf of any traveller railway enthusiast historian or anglophile Produced as the British railway network was reaching its zenith & as tourism by rail became a serious pastime for the better off it was the first national tourist guide specifically organized around railway journeys & to this day offers a glimpse through the carriage window at a Britain long past This is a facsimile of the actual book
- often referred to as & Bradshaw&s Guide&
- that inspired the & Great British Railway Journeys& television series possibly the only surviving example of the 1863 edition It is an exact copy with a removable belly-band