Ward Lock travel guides
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Ward Lock travel guides or Red Guides (1870s–1970s) were tourist guide books to the British Isles and continental Europe published by Ward, Lock & Co. of London.{{cite web|url=http://www.wardlockredguides.co.uk/ |title=Ward Lock & Co's Illustrated Guide Books for Collectors and Enthusiasts |location=UK |publisher=Runela |accessdate=31 August 2013 |url-status=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051108040453/http://www.wardlockredguides.co.uk/ |archivedate=November 8, 2005 }} The firm proclaimed them "amusing and readable" and the "cheapest and most trustworthy guides."{{citation |title =Ward & Lock's Tourists' Pictorial Guide Books (advert) |work=The Athenaeum |date=3 June 1882 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=y802AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA713 |last1=Buckingham |first1=James Silk |last2=Sterling |first2=John |last3=Maurice |first3=Frederick Denison |last4=Stebbing |first4=Henry |last5=Dilke |first5=Charles Wentworth |last6=Hervey |first6=Thomas Kibble |last7=Dixon |first7=William Hepworth |last8=MacColl |first8=Norman |last9=Rendall |first9=Vernon Horace |last10=Murry |first10=John Middleton }} To other readers the books were promotional and "rarely critical."{{Citation |publisher = Reaktion Books |isbn = 9781861892744 |title = Designing the Seaside: Architecture, Society and Nature |author = Fred Gray |date = 2006}} Compared to similar late 19th century series such as Methuen & Co.'s Little Guides, the Ward Lock guides emphasized "travel practicalities."{{citation |title=The Place of the Past in English Culture c. 1890-1914 |author= Paul Readman |journal= Past & Present |pages= 147–199 |number= 186 |year= 2005 |jstor=3600854 }}
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List of Ward Lock guides by geographic coverage
- {{Citation |publisher = Ward, Lock, and Co. |location = London |title = Ward & Lock's Descriptive and Pictorial Guide to the Isle of Man |date = 1883 |ol = 19370678M }}
- {{cite book |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to the Channel Islands |year=1902 }}
=Belgium=
- {{cite book |title=Guide to Belgium, including the Ardennes and Luxemburg |publisher=Ward, Lock & Co. |location= London |year=c. 1909 |edition=5th |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006799163 }}
- {{cite book |title=Handbook to Belgium and the Battlefields |publisher=Ward, Lock & Co. |location= London |year=1921 |edition=7th |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009323853 }} + [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b412881?urlappend=%3Bseq=379 Index]
=England=
== [[East Midlands]] region ==
- {{cite book |title=Nottingham and its Environs }}
- {{cite book |title= Ward and Lock's Illustrated Guide to, and Popular History of Buxton, Matlock, Dovedale, Alton Towers, and the Peak District |year=1880 |url= https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200143/908345F696FAEDB7525AF5A3BBE18553FFACFF45.html }}
== [[East of England]] region ==
- {{cite book |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Felixstowe |year=1910 }}
- {{cite book |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Aldeburgh |year=1911 }}
== [[Greater London|London]] region ==
- {{Citation |publisher = Ward & Lock |location = London |title = Pictorial Guide to London |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=q8YHAAAAQAAJ|date = 1879 }}
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=kmgLAAAAYAAJ 1901 ed.]
- {{Citation |publisher = Ward, Lock & Co. |location = London |title = Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to London and its Environs |url = https://archive.org/stream/apictorialandde00ltdgoog#page/n9/mode/2up |date = 1907 |edition=28th }} + [https://archive.org/stream/apictorialandde00ltdgoog#page/n377/mode/2up Index]
- {{cite book |title=Ward and Lock's Holiday Trips Round and About London |publisher=Ward, Lock & Co. |location= London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=24AHAAAAQAAJ |year=c. 1880 }} + [https://books.google.com/books?id=24AHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA125 Index]
== [[North East England]] region ==
- {{cite book |title=Ward and Lock's Illustrated Guide to, and Popular History of Redcar, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, &c |year=1883 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QbgHAAAAQAAJ }}
== [[North West England]] region ==
- {{cite book |title=Southport and its Vicinity }}
- {{cite book |title=Ward & Lock's (late Shaw's) Tourists' Picturesque Guide to Liverpool and its Environs |year=c. 1881 |url= http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000154032 |edition=5th }}
- {{cite book |title=Ward and Lock's pictorial and historical guide to Furness Abbey, with excursions around Morecambe Bay |year=1884 |url= https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200143/3DE09B300B194DD96994867BE7299FA3F2932FB2.html }}
- {{Citation |publisher = Ward, Lock |location = London |title = Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to the English Lake District |date = 1916 |edition=17th |ol = 14034359M }}
== [[South East England]] region ==
- {{cite book |title=Brighton and its Suburbs }}
- {{cite book |title= Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to the Isle of Wight |edition=14th |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007704757 }}
- {{cite book |title=Windsor and its Castle }}
- {{Citation |publisher = Ward, Lock and Co. |location = London |title = Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Eastbourne, Beachy Head, Seaford, &c |date = 1901 |ol = 17987498M }}
- {{cite book |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Brighton and Hove, the South Downs, Shoreham, Bramber, Lewes, Newhaven, Seaford, etc.: with routes for motorists and cyclists |year=1908 |edition=6th |url= http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007971146 }}
- {{cite book |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Broadstairs |year=1910 }}
- {{cite book |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Canterbury |year=1910 }}
- {{Citation |publisher = Ward, Lock & Co. |location = London |title = Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Canterbury, Herne Bay, Whitstable and the Isle of Thanet |date = 1920 |ol = 14034358M }}
- {{cite book |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Ramsgate, Broadstairs, Sandwich, Margate, Canterbury, and North-East Kent |year=c. 1922 |edition=7th |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000110698 }}
== [[South West England]] region ==
- {{cite book |title=Exeter and South-East Devon }}{{citation |work=Publishers' Circular |date=16 April 1892 |title=Ward Lock & Co.,'s Illustrated Guide Books (advert) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TtFOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA429 }}
- {{cite book |title=Guide to Exeter |year=1899 |publisher = Ward, Lock & Co. |location = London }}
- {{Citation |publisher = Ward, Lock & Co. |location = London |title = Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Bideford, Clovelly, Hartland, Barnstaple, Ilfracombe and North-West Devon |date = 1900 |ol = 17986428M }}
- {{cite book |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Plymouth, Stonehouse, Devonport, and South-West Devon |year=c. 1901 |publisher = Ward, Lock & Co. |location = London |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009042439 }}
- {{cite book |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Falmouth |year=1910 }}
- {{cite book |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Newquay and North Cornwall |year= 1927 |edition=9th}}
- {{cite book |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to St Ives, Carbis Bay, Penzance, Land's End and the Isles of Scilly |year= 1927 |edition=11th}}
- {{cite book |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Penzance and West Cornwall |year= 1928 |edition=11th}}
- {{Citation |location = London |author = Ward, Lock and Company |title = Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Weymouth, Portland, Dorchester, Lulworth, Swanage, Sherborne, etc. |date = 1921 |ol = 23367098M }}
- {{cite book |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Falmouth, the Lizard, Truro, St. Austell, Fowey, and South Cornwall |year=c. 1922 |edition=7th |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000112171 }}
- {{cite book |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Ilfracombe, Barnstaple, Bideford, Woolacombe, and North-West Devon |year=c. 1922 |edition=10th |url= http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006526260 }}
== [[West Midlands (region)]] ==
- {{cite book |title=Birmingham and its Neighborhood }}
- {{cite book |title=Ward and Lock's Pictorial Guide to Warwickshire |year=1882 |url= https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200143/48A27F6162742984611E4B92EAA74B96D4923F3F.html }}
- {{cite book |title=Ward & Lock's (Late Shaw's) Illustrated Guide to, and Popular History of Leamington & Warwick: with Excursions to Kenilworth, Stratford-on-Avon, and other Places in the Neighbourhood |year=1888 |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008009725 |location=Leamington |publisher= Thos. Simmons }}
- {{cite book |title=Illustrated Guide to, and Popular History of Leamington & Warwick: with excursions to Kenilworth, Stratford-on-Avon, and other places in the neighbourhood |year=c. 1891|url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006826693 }}
- {{cite book |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Royal Leamington Spa, Warwick, Guy's Cliff, Kenilworth, Stratford-upon-Avon, Coventry, the George Eliot country, etc |year=1900 }}
- {{cite book |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Stratford-upon-Avon |year=1907 |edition=3rd |url= http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008645785 }}
== [[Yorkshire and the Humber]] region ==
- {{cite book |title=Leeds and its Vicinity }}
- {{cite book |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Harrogate |year=1894 |publisher=Ward, Lock & Bowden |url= http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008646001 }}
- {{cite book |title=Yorkshire coast from Hornsea to Redcar, including Bridlington, Filey, Scarborough, Robin Hood's Bay, Whitby, Saltburn |year=1960 }}
- {{cite book |title=Bridlington, Flamborough, Filey, Scarborough, Hornsea |year=1924 }}
=France=
- {{cite book |title=Riviera, Nice, Cannes, Mentone, Monte Carlo, Monaco, Hyères, Genoa, &c. }}
- {{cite book |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to the Channel Islands: with short excursions to Brittany and Normandy |year=1902 }}
- {{cite book |title=Guide to Paris and its Environs |publisher=W.H. Smith & Son |location= Paris |year=1913 |edition=7th |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009022262 }}
- {{cite book |title=Handbook to Paris and its Environs |publisher=Ward, Lock & Co. |location= London |year=c. 1922 |edition=11th |url=https://archive.org/stream/handbooktoparisi00ward#page/n7/mode/2up }}
=Ireland=
- {{cite book |title=Belfast and its Neighborhood }}
- {{cite book |title=Limerick, the Shannon, Kilkee, &c. }}
- {{cite book |title=Ward and Lock's Pictorial and Historical Guide to Cork and its Neighbourhood: With Excursions to Bantry, Glengarriff, Killarney, and Other Places in the South-West of Ireland |publisher = Ward, Lock, and Co. |location = London |year=c. 1885 |url=http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:128579 }}
- {{cite book |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Cork, Queenstown, the Blackwater, Glengariff, Killarney, and the south-west of Ireland |year=c. 1912 |edition=6th |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000198438 }}
- {{Citation |location = London |title = A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Dublin and the Wicklow tours |publisher = Ward, Lock and Company |date = 1919 |oclc = 8105082 |ol = 23663882M }}
=Italy=
- {{cite book |title=Handbook to Rome and its Environs |publisher=Ward, Lock & Co. |location= London |year=1929 |edition=3rd |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003313688 }}
=Netherlands=
- {{cite book |title=Illustrated Guide to the Rhine |year=1884 }}
- {{cite book |title=Guide to Holland |publisher=Ward, Lock & Co. |location= London |year=1909 |edition=5th |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006800996 }}
- {{cite book |title=Handbook to Holland |publisher=Ward, Lock & Co. |location= London |year=1921 |edition=7th |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008933493 }} + [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b520190?urlappend=%3Bseq=249 Index]
=Scotland=
- {{cite book |title=Edinburgh and its Environs }}
- {{cite book |title=Ward & Lock's (late Shaw's) Illustrated Guide to, and Popular History of Loch Lomond, the Trosachs, Loch Katrine, etc. |year=1880s |url=https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200143/6F65E0F0D557CFC6F91243C896A6C13811641AAD.html }}
- {{cite book |title=Ward & Lock's (late Shaw's) Illustrated Guide to, and Popular History of the land of Burns, including Ayr, Arran, and Dumfries |year=1880s |url=https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200143/399ACE39B6037906EF88FCACD6007098DCE417D6.html }}
- {{cite book |title=Ward & Lock's Popular History of and Illustrated Guide to Perth, Dundee and other Interesting Places near the East Coast of Scotland |year=1882 |url= https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200143/54AEE6412C3AC1C48B10A3ED4D24992911F222BE.html }}
- {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eaYHAAAAQAAJ |title=Eastern Highlands |year=1882 |last1=Ward |first1=Lock & Co }}
- {{cite book |title=Guide to Aberdeen, Deeside and Donside ... and the Moray Firth Coast |year=1901 |url= http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008589282 }}
- {{cite book |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Glasgow and the Clyde |year=1915 }}
- {{cite book |title= Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Oban, Fort William, the Caledonian Canal, Iona, Staffa, and the Western Highlands |year=c. 1917 |edition=5th }}
=Switzerland=
- {{cite book |title=Guide to Switzerland |publisher=Ward, Lock & Co. |location= London |year=c. 1909 |edition=6th |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001859999 }}
=Wales=
- {{cite book |title=Ward and Lock's (late Shaw's) Illustrated Guide to and Popular History of North Wales |publisher=Ward, Lock & Co. |location= London |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=KsMHAAAAQAAJ |year=c. 1884 }}
- {{cite book |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Bangor |date=1910s }}
- {{cite book |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Colwyn Bay |date=1910s }}
- {{cite book |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Llandudno |date=1910s }}
- {{cite book |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Rhyl |date=1910s }}
- {{cite book |title=New Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Tenby, Pembroke, Carmarthen, and South Wales |year=1912 }}
- {{cite book |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Cardiff and South Wales |year=c. 1917 |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000154198 }}
- {{cite book |title=North Wales (southern section): Aberystwyth, Towyn, Barmouth, Criccieth, Pwllheli, Llangollen, Snowdon, etc. |year=1959 |edition=13th }}
References
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External links
- [https://wlrg.z33.web.core.windows.net/default.html Ward Lock Red Guides]
Category:Publications established in the 1870s