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^HE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF MURRAY'S HANDB...
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pour by ' Mr former . Formey une Biblfotheque , ' as he calls ' ( Bjerlin himself , 17 is 55 ) a ,
into into Muaint at at and least least interesting th three ree , editions editions little , book and and which m in , winch which ran
neither the German Herr nor , the French 8 Monsieur (;( nietimes iuetimes is with used , but aincr the effent English 'Mr .
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library facetious ^ of , and Grolier ^^* - a catalogue , besides ^^ ^ ^^ of notes singular . on , several books . Although the ' Histoire de la Bibliophilie
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^He Origin And History Of Murray's Handb...
^ HE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF MURRAY'S HANDBOOKS FOR
TRAVELLERS . A writer in the Pall Mall Gazette recently
gave modern Mr . guidiPbook Baedeker the aiid credit this of has inventing led Mr the * Murraythroug ti h the ^ columns / ii of x . his J * 4 XPh # own
real m A >> 4 a gaz X facts l « i , V ne m , V ^ AX to of ' the acquaint CklA case U 1 * V . the x In AAAXAikj publ the ^ oours *~ q with . e of r the TT * a
good most his interesting own claim article to be Mr . regarded Murray as makes the ' authorinventorand originator' of this class
¦ Bi b ai , , at a h of ^ literature * . roll ed awa as we now ince possess the honou it . re Sixt ^^** d d y years of the publishing trade y set forth on those oyen Conti * -
an nental d tourists rambles hav from e reaped which subsequent so much advantage travellers .
Prince Mr . Murray Metternich was privileged , and his to meet reminiscences Goethe and of
are these celebrities might be of the expected century , both even vivid if slight and ,
valuable , . We should like to , print the whole article , but must content ourselves by drawing
attentio extracts n to to speak it , and for then themselves leaving : — the following
profited * Since bv so these many lA thousands ^ oks , it m iBBBBBa may of Bk persons be of some have flOl m . ^ . ^ ¦ ^—^
interest the cause to the which public led to me leafnTOieir to origin them , and . Having from my early youth been prepare possessed
by gent fath ard er ent acceded desire to to trave my l request , my very , on indul con - - dition that I should prepare myself by
master to travel ing - in the . langu Acc —— ording age - - ^ of » l ~] y m / , the in country 1829 , having I was t ^»
brushed Continent up at my Rotterdam German , I and first set " foot Handbook on the for Holland " gives the resul , ts my of my personal
derful observations country and . private studies of that won-\ ' At that time such a thing as a Guide-book
fer The Germany only Guides ^ France deserving , or Spain the did name not were exist . :
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 1, 1889, page 1389, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01111889/page/11/
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