James Fullarton Muirhead (1853-1934) was a Scottish editor and writer of travel guides, associated with the Baedeker publishing house for many years, prior to starting his own publishing house.
Muirhead thereafter commenced a thirty-five year association (1879-1914) with the Baedeker publishing house, where he was the editor of the English and American editions of Baedeker's Handbook for Travellers, as well as writing separate guides based on Muirhead's own travels.
[1] He also used his American travels to write A Land of Contrasts, published in 1898,[3] in addition to his work on the related Baedeker guidebook.
[1] Muirhead's association with Baedeker, a company long established and based in Germany, ended with the outbreak of the First World War.
In 1915, they acquired the rights to Murray's Handbooks for Travellers, which formed the basis for the development of the Blue Guides.