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Baedeker\'s Great Britain. Published in 1894. Third edition, revised and augmented. Bound in flexible boards, 547 pages.
This volume contains 15 maps, 30 plans, and a panorama. There were supposed to be 16 maps, including a railway map of England before the title page, but that map appears to be missing from this copy. The other 15 maps are all present, as is the panorama. The railway map of Scotland has come loose from the binding but is present. We have not checked the 30 plans, but we saw many plans while paging through the volume.
Condition is used. There is some browning and occasional foxing. There is damage to the top of the spine, which does not affect the pages. There is a rip in the cloth about halfway down the left side of the spine. There are two old tape repairs to the inside of the back cover, which are visible on the index map of Great Britain glued there. Some of the maps show wear and fraying at the edge. We have not checked every page, but our inspection revealed no pen or pencil notations -- unusual for a used travel guide of that era.
Our low price reflects the condition issues, including the missing map.
Karl Baedeker (1801-1859) descended from a long line of printers, booksellers and publishers from Essen, Germany. Baedeker\'s meticulous travel guides reflected many of his own ideas of what a guide should offer the traveller or reader. Baedeker aimed to free the traveller from having to look for information anywhere outside the travel guide for routes, transport, accommodation, restaurants, tipping, sights, walks and prices. His innovations included detailed information on routes, travel and accommodation.
Karl Baedeker had three sons, Ernst, Karl and Fritz and after his death each, in turn, took over the running of the firm. This guide was published under the management of the third son, Fritz Baedeker (1844−1925). Under Fritz\'s management, the Baedeker company grew rapidly. In 1872, Fritz moved the company\'s headquarters from Koblenz to Leipzig, a major move forward, as most of the reputable major German publishing houses were located there. Fritz also persuaded Eduard Wagner, the Baedeker cartographer in Darmstadt, to move to Leipzig and establish a new company with Ernst Debes, a talented cartographer, to supply maps for the guides.
Fritz Baedeker became the most successful travel guide publisher of all time and turned the publishing house into the most famous and reputable publisher of travel guides in the world. In 1909, Leipzig University conferred an honorary Ph.D. (a rare honour at the time) on him at its 500th anniversary convocation. This era in its history was brought to an end by the outbreak of World War I, after which the house of Baedeker went into decline, the victim of the post-war international geopolitical and economic
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