Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers

Each annual edition contained information for tourists in Europe and parts of the Middle East.

The "indefatigable" William Pembroke Fetridge[1] wrote most of the guides from 1862 until at least 1885.

[2] In its day the Harper's Hand-Book competed with popular guides such as Baedeker, Bradshaw's, and Murray's.

[3] In 1867 critic William Dean Howells found Harper's Hand-Book "chatty and sociable.

"[3] Readers included Lucy Baird, daughter of Spencer F.