Coghlan's Guides

Summary

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

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

List of Coghlan's Guides by date of publication edit

1820s edit

  • 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 edit

  • 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). Handbook for European Tourists (2nd ed.). London: H. Hughes. + Indexes
  • Francis Coghlan (1847). Coghlan's Pocket Picture of London and its Environs. London: H. Hughes.

1850s-1860s edit

  • Francis Coghlan (1853), Miniature Guide to Paris and its Environs, London: J. Onwhyn
  • Francis Coghlan (1853), Miniature Guide to the Rhine, through Belgium and Holland, Northern and Southern Germany, London: J. Onwhyn + Index
  • Francis Coghlan (1854), New Guide to Paris and its Environs, London: J. Onwhyn
  • Charles Francis Coghlan, Jr. (1858). Beauties of Baden-Baden. London: F. Coghlan. + Contents
  • Francis Coghlan (1860). Guide to North Wales. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.
  • Coghlan's Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy, Comprising Rome, Naples, and Sicily, Trübner & Co, 1863
  • Coghlan's Belgium, Holland, the Rhine and Switzerland; the fashionable German watering places (17th ed.). London: Trubner & Co. 1861.
  • Coghlan's Illustrated Guide to the Rhine, with routes Through Belgium, Holland and France (18th ed.). London: Trubner & Co. 1863. + Index

List of Coghlan's Guides by geographic coverage edit

Belgium edit

  • Belgium. London: F. Coghlan.[4]
  • Brussels. London: F. Coghlan.[4]
  • Coghlan's Illustrated Guide to the Rhine, with routes Through Belgium, Holland and France (18th ed.). London: Trubner & Co. 1863. + Index

France edit

  • Boulogne. London: F. Coghlan.[4]
  • Calais. London: F. Coghlan.[4]
  • Francis Coghlan (1830), Guide to France (5th ed.), London: J. Onwhyn + Index
  • Francis Coghlan (1853), Miniature Guide to Paris and its Environs, London: J. Onwhyn
  • Through France. London: F. Coghlan.[4]

Germany edit

  • Francis Coghlan (1853), Miniature Guide to the Rhine, through Belgium and Holland, Northern and Southern Germany, London: J. Onwhyn + Index
  • Charles Francis Coghlan, Jr. (1858). Beauties of Baden-Baden. London: F. Coghlan. + Contents

Great Britain edit

  • 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 edit

  • Francis Coghlan (1845), Hand-Book for Italy, London: H. Hughes, OCLC 8457177[6]
    • Francis Coghlan (1845), Hand-Book for Italy (2nd ed.), London[7]
  • Coghlan's Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy, Comprising Rome, Naples, and Sicily (5th ed.), Trübner & Co, 1863 + Index

Netherlands edit

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

Russia edit

  • 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 edit

  • Francis Coghlan (1838). Guide through Switzerland and Chamounix. London: A.H. Baily and Co.
    • Francis Coghlan (1839). Guide through Switzerland and Chamounix. London: A.H. Baily and Co. + Index

See also edit

References edit

  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

External links edit

  • WorldCat. Francis Coghlan
  • Ancestry.com. Coghlan family