The Blue Guides (French, Guides Bleus) are a series of highly detailed and authoritative travel guidebooks focusing almost exclusively on art and architecture along with the history and context necessary to understand them. A guide book is a book for Tourists or travelers that provides details about a Geographic location, Tourist destination, or Itinerary. Art refers to a diverse range of Human activities creations and expressions that are appealing to the Senses or Emotions of a human individual The term architecture (from Greek αρχιτεκτονικήarchitektoniki) can be used to mean a process a profession or documentation (A minimum of practical travel information is also generally included. )
The first Blue Guide – London and its Environs – was published in 1918 by the Scottish brothers James and Findlay Muirhead. The Muirheads had for many years been the English-language editors of the famous German Baedeker series. Verlag Karl Baedeker is a Germany -based Publisher and pioneer in the business of worldwide Travel guides The guides often When they also acquired the rights to John Murray III’s famous travel “handbooks” (see John Murray I) they established the Blue Guides as heir to the great 19th century guide book tradition. John Murray (1745–1793 was the founder of a British publishing house renowned for the roster of authors it has published in its history including Jane Austen
History of the Blue Guides
In 1828, Karl Baedeker (1801-59) published his first guidebook, Rheinreise von Mainz bis Cöln and in 1836 John Murray III’s (1808-92) first Handbook was released (Handbook for Travellers on the Continent). Karl Baedeker ( 3 November, 1801 &ndash 4 October, 1859) was a German Publisher whose company Baedeker The first Baedeker in English, The Rhine (1861), was published jointly by Baedeker and Murray. These handbooks were to become the standard for English travellers for the remainder of the 19th Century.
James Muirhead (1853-1934) began working for Baedeker in 1878, preparing a Handbook for Travellers to London. Findlay Muirhead (1860-1935), graduate of Edinburgh University, left his studies at Leipzig in 1887 to join his brother at Baedeker. The University of Edinburgh (Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann founded in 1582 is a renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. This sort of fix restores section edit linkpoints to where they belong For almost the next 30 years the brothers were responsible for all English language Baedekers, including compiling guides to Britain, the US and Canada. Following the outbreak of World War I, the Muirhead brothers found themselves out of a job. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All They acquired the rights to Murray’s Handbooks in 1915 from the cartographical publisher Edward Stanford, who had bought them 14 years earlier from John Murray IV. Edward Stanford was the founder of Standford's Ltd, now a duo of Map and book stores based in London, and Bristol. In the same year they established their company, Muirhead’s Guide-books Limited. A 1917 agreement with French publisher Hachette allowed co-publication in English and French of guidebooks under the names Blue Guides and Guides Bleus, respectively. Louis Christophe François Hachette ( May 5, 1800 - July 31, 1864) was a French Publisher. Hachette’s existing Guides Joannes had blue covers, while Baedeker’s guides had red covers. The first Blue Guide, Blue Guide London and its Environs, was published in 1918. Two years later, Hachette published Guide Bleu Londres et ses Environs.
The Blue Guides were acquired by Ernest Benn Limited in 1931 and in just two years co-operation with Hachette ended. (Litellus) Russell Muirhead (1896-1976), Findlay’s son, became the series editor in 1934. He retired in 1963, remaining a consulting editor until 1965 when the Muirhead family’s connection with the series ended.
In 1963, Stuart Rossiter (1923-82) was appointed editor and in 1967 the first of Rossiter’s “scrupulously edited guides, compiled for the independent educated traveller wanting to avoid the monotony of international uniformity” (Blue Guide Greece) was compiled by Rossiter himself and published. Blue Guide Rome and Environs, by Alta Macadam, was released in 1971. Her Italy titles thereafter become some of the best selling Blue Guides and included Sicily (1975), Northern Italy (1978), Florence (1982), Venice (1980), Tuscany (1993), and Umbria (1993), all frequently updated and re-issued. Other key Blue Guide authors are and have been Ian Robertson (Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, etc), John Tomes (Scotland, Wales), Ian Ousby (England), Paul Blanchard (Italy), Delia Gray-Durant (France). Paul Beecher Blanshard (often misspelled "Blanchard" (1892-1980 a native of Ohio and a graduate of the University of Michigan who later lived in Vermont was an American journalist
In 1982, WW Norton and Co of New York became the United States co-publisher, selling all Blue Guides in that country. W W Norton & Company is an American book publishing company that has remained independent since its founding Two years later, the Blue Guides were acquired by A&C Black (Publishers) Limited, themselves later acquired by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, publishers of the Harry Potter books among others. A & C Black is a British book publishing company The firm was founded in 1807 by Adam and Charles Black in Edinburgh, and moved to the Soho Bloomsbury Publishing Plc is an independent London -based publishing house known for literary Novels It was named Publisher of the Year in 1999 and Harry Potter is a series of seven Fantasy novels written by British author J In 2004, Somerset Books acquired the Blue Guides, and a year later published its first original title, Blue Guide Northern Italy.
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