Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East, 1862
Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers (est.1862) was a series of travel guide books published by Harper & Brothers of New York. Each annual edition contained information for tourists in Europe and parts of the Middle East. The "indefatigable" William Pembroke Fetridge[1] wrote most of the guides from 1862 until at least 1885.[2] In its day the Harper's Hand-Book competed with popular guides such as Baedeker, Bradshaw's, and Murray's.[3] In 1867 critic William Dean Howells found Harper's Hand-Book "chatty and sociable."[3] Readers included Lucy Baird, daughter of Spencer F. Baird.[4]
References
^Jeffrey Steinbrink (1983). "Why the Innocents Went Abroad: Mark Twain and American Tourism in the Late Nineteenth Century". American Literary Realism, 1870-1910. 16 (2): 278–286. JSTOR27746104.
^ abWilliam Dean Howells (March 1867), "Reviews and Literary Notices: Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East. Fifth Year", Atlantic Monthly, vol. 19, pp. 380–383, hdl:2027/chi.20670628
W. Pembroke Fetridge (1865), Harper's Hand-Book for Travelers in Europe and the East (4th ed.), New York: Harper & Brothers, hdl:2027/nyp.33433066588488 + Index
W. Pembroke Fetridge (1868), Harper's Hand-Book for Travelers in Europe and the East, New York: Harper & Brothers, hdl:2027/nyp.33433066588470