We
would love to hear from you about your red
travel guide series collection, feedback on
the website, or perhaps we can help with a query you
may have. To get in touch about the guides, please
send an email to:
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Please
be aware that we do not represent the Ward Lock
company in any official capacity, nor do we have any
contact with it or any remnant of it that may exist. If you
have a query or information about other Ward Lock
books, the company or any other types of
collections, please don't send to us because our
knowledge, expertise and enthusiasm does not extend
much beyond the red travel guides, and we are thus
unlikely to be able to help.
You might find a relevant contact on our links page,
or by a specific search on the web.
We intend to
continue to evolve this site to include facts and information of
interest to all red guide book collectors and
enthusiasts. To that end we welcome any comments or
observations which will help to develop and
improve the site. Please don't hesitate to put
forward any ideas or suggestions which may make it
more attractive and useful. It is encouraging
that we have already had numerous inputs that have
helped in this way.
Ideas under
consideration include:
a database of
all known red guide titles, their editions and publication
years (we believe there are over 4000 combinations
of titles, years and editions)
further information about dating clues, for example
a table of common advertisement prices or postage
rates by year
a membership/subscription
scheme with secure login, to provide information
about individuals' collections
a listing
scheme to indicate items for sale (e.g. via ebay) or
exchange or wanted from subscribing members
extension of website to include details of
post-1950s editions (those with dust jackets or
paperbacks)
A note on errata:
To quote from an
insert to the 1902-3 Cromer guide (3rd Ed):
"TO OUR READERS.
Every care has been taken to render this volume
accurate and trustworthy. But it is the lot of all
human beings - even of editors of Guide Books who,
of all men, should be most careful to err. In this
busy age, too, changes take place, both in town and
country, with marvellous rapidity, and thwart at
times the efforts of the most painstaking writer. We
should, therefore, esteem it a favour should any of
our readers discover errors, either of omission or
commission, in these pages, if they would promptly
inform the Publishers. Such communications will be
thankfully acknowledged and the inaccuracies
rectified. THE EDITOR."
We could not put it better in respect of this
website!
If you
are a collector of Ward Lock red travel guides, we hope
you will enjoy this web site and that it will help you
enjoy your collection and share information from
like-minded collectors.
