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]
• Francis Coghlan (1843). Hand-book to the Channel Islands. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.
• Francis 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
• Francis 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
• Francis 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]
• Francis 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