Coghlan's Guides

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

1820s

• 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

• 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]
• Franis Coghlan (1843). Hand-book to the Channel Islands. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.
• Franis 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
• Franis Coghlan (1847). Coghlan's Pocket Picture of London and its Environs. London: H. Hughes.

1850s-1860s

• 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
• Franis 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

Belgium

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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]
• Franis 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

• 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

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

Russia

• 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

• 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

• Charles Francis Coghlan, thespian son of Coghlan

References

1. "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. "Coghlan's Guides for Travellers (advert)", Bent's Monthly Literary Advertiser, London, 10 August 1840
5. "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

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