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95. John Gretton, “Introduction,” in Lister, Bibliography of Murray’s Handbook,
pp. iii, xxii–xxiv. John Murray, The Origin and History of Murray’s Handbooks for
Travelers (London: John Murray, n.d.).
96. W.B.C. Lister and Michael Wild, “The Baedeker–Murray Correspondence,”
Baedekeriana 13 (1990), pp. 2–20; Baedekeriana 14 (1990), pp. 16–31. Baedekeriana was
a home-produced journal compiled by Michael Wild, which appeared for eighteen issues
in sixty-five copies. Some copies are available both at the University Library, Cambridge,
and the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
97. This price differential was also true for respective guides on Italy. Thomas Cook
Archives, Cook’s Excursionist and European and American Tourist Adviser (July 27, 1867).
In 1865, Thomas Cook advertised the sale of Baedeker’s Handbook to Paris for 4s. 6d.,
and the equivalent Murray’s guide for 5s. Thomas Cook Archive, Cook’s Excursionist and
International Tourist Advertiser (May 22, 1865). Baedeker’s first English guidebook, on
the Rhine, cost 4s. 6d., while Murray’s equivalent handbook was 9s. 4d. Hinrichsen,
Baedeker’s Reisehandbücher, p. 27.
98. See e.g. Thomas Cook Archive, Cook’s Excursionist and International Tourist
Advertiser (May 1, 1865).
99. Karl Baedeker, Paris and its Environs, 4th edn (Leipzig, 1873), pp. 8, 15; John
Murray, A Handbook for Visitors to Paris, 6th edn (London, 1874), p. 28.
100. Murray, Handbook for Visitors to Paris, 6th edn (1974), p. 211. Compare with
Baedeker, Paris, 4th edn (1973), p. 77.
101. Pall Mall Gazette (October 18, 1887), p. 3. A remarkably similar comment on the
French edition on the “Sud-Est de la France” (1905) is in Baedekeriana 13 (1990), p. 22.
102. Pall Mall Gazette (August 23, 1889), pp. 1–2.
103. In the late 1880s, the Baedeker’s predominance in the English market was not yet
assured. For criticism of its cultural bias, see Pall Mall Gazette (August 31, 1889), p. 2.
After 1900, though, scores of publications employed the Baedeker trademark. Ardern
Beaman, Travels without Baedeker (London, 1913), refuted in its preface any “literary
merit, nor any sort of accuracy, historical or otherwise.” William George Jordan, Little
Problems of Married Life: The Baedeker to Matrimony (New York, Chicago, Toronto,
London and Edinburgh, 1910) claimed “Ciceronian” authority, while Carolyn Wells, The
Lover’s Baedeker and Guide to Arcady (New York, 1912) is a humorous American
publication whose whole structure was modeled on, and could be understood only through
knowledge of, the original. See also Koshar, “‘What ought to be seen?’,” p. 330.
104. Interestingly (and not necessarily paradoxically), the German view of the Baedeker
as a symbol of German economic hegemony was not shared by those primarily affected,
the British: Koshar, “‘What ought to be seen’.”
105. This view refines arguments about the inexorable rise of Anglo-German antagonism
by pointing out that there were two Germanies in the British public perception, one
militaristic, ruthless, and authoritarian, the other cultured and kindred. Paul Kennedy, The
Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860–1914 (London: Allen and Unwin, 1982).
Peter Pulzer, “Der deutsche Michel in John Bulls Spiegel: Das britische Deutschlandbild
im 19. Jahrhundert,” in Jahrbuch des Historischen Kollegs (Munich, 1998), pp. 3–19, here
pp. 15–16. Peter Pulzer, “Vorbild, Rivale und Unmensch. Das sich wandelnde Deutschlandbild
in England 1815–1945,” in Hans Süssmuth (ed.), Deutschlandbilder in Dänemark
und England, in Frankreich und den Niederlanden (Baden Baden, 1996), pp. 235–50, here
235–9.
106. Christopher Smith, “Asquith on ‘Enchantress’ with Churchill and Baedeker,”
Baedekeriana, 18 (1992), pp. 1–3 (insert).
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