Edward J. Burrow
Edward J. Burrow (8 June 1869, Wellington, Somerset – 19 September 1934, Cheltenham) was a prodigious engraver and founder of Edward J. Burrow and Co., a printing and publishing firm.[1]
Beginning in the years before the First World War Burrow published more than 500 travel guides in a series titled The "Borough" Pocket Guides (also known as The "Borough" Guides) to various localities of the British Isles and some parts of the Continent.[2] In the 1920s he published a book series titled Burrow's "RAC" Guides,[3] which were issued under the auspices of the Royal Automobile Club Touring Department. In the 1930s he issued another series named Burrow's Grey Guides.[4]
Until the 1960s Burrow was the most prolific publishers of local authority official guidebooks in the UK, from booklets covering small rural districts to large civic handbooks for London metropolitan boroughs.
References
[edit]- ^ McGandy, Gerry (30 March 2017). "Who were Edward J. Burrow and Richard Eustace Tickell and why did they record The Vale of Nantgwilt in 1893? by Gerry McGandy". Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum & Galleries. Aberystwyth University. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
- ^ se:Borough Guides, worldcat.org. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
- ^ Motoring in Scotland: a practical handbook for motor tourists, worldcat.org. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
- ^ Grey Guides Burrow, worldcat.org. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
External links
[edit]- The "Borough" Guide to Clonmel, Cheltenham: Edward J. Burrow, ca. 1901 (The "Borough" Pocket Guides, 456).