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Title: A Handbook for Travellers in Durham and Northumberland
Description: London, John Murray, 1890 . Cloth. A new edition of Murray's popular handbook, this volume pertaining to Durham and the surrounding area, complete with five maps, two of which are folding. A new edition, carefully revised. Bound in the publisher's red cloth. Illustrated with five maps, including two folding maps held in pockets to the front and rear of the work. Collated, complete. A travel guide to Durham and Northumberland compiled as part of 'Murray's Handbooks for Travellers', a series of travel guide books published in London by John Murray beginning in 1836. According to scholar James Buzard, the Murray style 'exemplified the exhaustive rational planning that was as much an ideal of the emerging tourist industry as it was of British commercial and industrial organization generally&apos. These works are thus a fascinating insight into both the mentality of those who would have purchased them, and the locations in question. A sixty-four page 'Murray's Handbook Advertiser' to the rear.With an advert for Three Tuns Hotel, Durham, loosely inserted. Bound in the publisher's red cloth. Externally, very good, with light bumping and some rubbing to the extremities. The odd mark to cloth. Hinges are a touch strained, but holding firm. Stamp to front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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