Coghlan's Guides

Iron Road Book, 1838
Coghlan's New Guide to Paris, 1854
Coghlan's Guide to South Italy, 1863

Coghlan's Guides were a series of travel guide books to Europe written by Francis Coghlan in the mid-19th century.

List of Coghlan's Guides by date of publication

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1820s

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  • A Guide to France, or, Travellers their own commissioners: shewing the cheapest and most expeditious system of travelling ... Illustrated with an engraved plan of Calais, etc. J. Onwhyn: London, 1828[1]

1830s-1840s

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  • Francis Coghlan (1830), Guide to France (5th ed.), London: J. Onwhyn
  • Francis Coghlan (1838). Guide through Switzerland and Chamounix. London: A.H. Baily and Co.
  • Francis Coghlan (1838). Iron Road Book and Railway Companion from London to Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool. London: A.H. Baily & Co.[2]
  • Francis Coghlan (1843). Hand-book to the Channel Islands. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.
  • Francis Coghlan (1844). Hand-book for Central Europe. London: H. Hughes.
  • Francis Coghlan (1845). Handbook for European Tourists.[3]
  • Francis Coghlan (1847). Coghlan's Pocket Picture of London and its Environs. London: H. Hughes.

1850s-1860s

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List of Coghlan's Guides by geographic coverage

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Belgium

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France

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Germany

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Great Britain

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  • Brighton and its Environs. London: A.H. Baily and Co.[5]
  • Coast Companion to Rye-Winchelsea-Hastings-St. Leonards-East-Bourne-Brighton-Worthing-and Bognor. London : H. Hughes, [1830?][1]
  • Companion to Gravesend, Herne Bay, and Canterbury. London: A.H. Baily and Co.[5]
  • Companion to Hastings, Brighton, Worthing, &c. London: A.H. Baily and Co.[5]
  • Companion to Margate, Ramsgate, Dover, & c. London: A.H. Baily and Co.[5]
  • Companion to Southampton and the Isle of Wight. London: A.H. Baily and Co.[5]
  • Dovor Guide. London: A.H. Baily and Co.[5]
  • Francis Coghlan (1860). Guide to North Wales. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.
  • Francis Coghlan (1838). Iron Road Book and Railway Companion from London to Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool. London: A.H. Baily & Co. + Contents
  • Iron Road Book and Railway Companion to Bath and Bristol. London: A.H. Baily and Co.[5]
  • Iron Road Book and Railway Companion to Birmingham. London: A.H. Baily and Co.[5]
  • Iron Road Book and Railway Companion to Southampton. London: A.H. Baily and Co.[5]
  • Pocket Picture of London. London: A.H. Baily and Co.[5]
  • Stranger's Guide in London. London: A.H. Baily and Co.[5]
  • Francis Coghlan (c. 1830s). Stranger's London Guide (2nd ed.). London: Thomas Geeves. + Index

Italy

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Netherlands

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  • Tourist's Companion through the Netherlands, up the Rhine, and Switzerland. London: A.H. Baily and Co.[5]

Russia

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  • Francis Coghlan (1834). Guide to St. Petersburgh and Moscow, by Hamburg, Lubeck, Travemunde, and by Steam Packet across the Baltic, to Cronstadt, &c. London.[5][8]
  • St. Petersburgh. London: F. Coghlan.[4]

Switzerland

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Catalogue". British Library. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
  2. ^ Sarah M. Misemer (2010), Moving forward, looking back: trains, literature, and the arts in the River Plate, Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, ISBN 9780838757659
  3. ^ Urban, Sylvanus (August 1845), "Miscellaneous Reviews", Gentleman's Magazine, London
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Coghlan's Guides for Travellers (advert)", Bent's Monthly Literary Advertiser, London, 10 August 1840
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Coghlan's Continental Guides, published by A.H. Baily and Co. (advert)", Comic Annual, London: A.H. Baily and Co., 1839
  6. ^ J.R. Hale (2005), England and the Italian Renaissance (4th ed.), Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., ISBN 9780631233640
  7. ^ William Edward Mead (1914), The Grand Tour In The Eighteenth Century, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, OCLC 411254, OL 6572111M
  8. ^ "Notices", Monthly Review, London: G. Henderson, July 1836
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