Old House Books

Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, once an indispensible tool for anyone planning to explore the Continent and now used in the BBC TV series, provides a fascinating glimpse of Europe soon to be convulsed by the First World War and emerge with many of its international borders changed by the conflict

Charles Booth's famous London Poverty Maps of 1889 reproduced as a set of two maps and presented in a handsome decorative cover with notes on the survey and the classifications adopted for conveying its results.

Bradshaw’s Railway Map 1907 from the Old Book House provides a reproduction of the map originally published to accompany the famous Bradshaw's Railway Manual 1907. The map shows the rail network of the British Isles at around the peak of its growth at about 23,000 miles in length. Many sea connections to Continental ports and to Ireland are also marked.

A reproduction from the Old Book House of Braun and Hogenberg's map of Elizabethan London first published in 1572. The map is the earliest surviving plan of the whole of London and presents the city much as Shakespeare would have known it.

Bradshaw’s Handbook or to give it its full title “Bradshaw’s Descriptive Railway Handbook of Great Britain & Ireland” - the book that inspired the TV series Great British Railway Journeys, reproduced in a faithful facsimile edition.

The London Midland & Scottish Railway Map 1924: Euston to Inverness from The Old Book House presents the whole 567-miles long route divided into eight separate panels printed side by side.

Bradshaw’s Handbook or to give it its full title “Bradshaw’s Descriptive Railway Handbook of Great Britain & Ireland” - the book that inspired the TV series Great British Railway Journeys, reproduced in a special collector’s leather-bound edition.

Bradshaw's International Air Guide, the very first edition published in November 1934, in a facsimile reproduction from the Old House Books, with a pull-out map showing air routes in Britain, Europe and worldwide.

A comprehensive travel guide to England, Wales and Scotland in the interwar period, this edition is distinguished for its reported association with the Luftwaffe attacks known as the 'Baedeker Blitz' in 1942, during which Exeter, Bath, Norwich, York and Canterbury in particular were targeted. It also includes hints for travellers, English etiquette and 'must-see' places and events.

London’s Theatreland in 1915 on a reproduction from the Old Book House of a decorative map commissioned by the Underground Electric Railways Company and drawn by the renowned artist Leslie MacDonald (Max) Gill, the younger brother of the sculptor and letterer Eric Gill.

Bradshaw's Canals and Navigable Rivers of England and Wales is a facsimile of the first guide to planning journeys on the inland waterways published in 1904 when the name Bradshaw became synonymous with reliable information on travelling the nation’s blossoming network of railways.

By the 1920s, the Great Western Railway had established its reputation as the 'Holiday Line' stretching from the bustling city of London to the beautiful coastline of the South West. The only company to survive the Grouping Act of 1921 with its identity intact, it boasted one of the country's most celebrated express trains: the Cornish Riviera Express, popularly known as the '10.30 Limited'. Published in 19...

Reproduction of “Johnston’s Plan of Edinburgh, Leith, Portobello and Environs, constructed from the latest surveys with additions by the local surveyors of these towns by W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh & London, 1893”.

Mail Steamship Routes map of the world is a reproduction by the Old House Books of a decorative poster from 1937, commissioned by the General Post Office to show the steamship routes that carried the majority of UK’s international mail during the 1930s.

Railway Maps of Great Britain 1924: the "Big Four" Box Set from The Old Book House combining the publishers’ four separate maps, each presenting the main route run by Britain’s four leading railway companies:

The London & North Eastern Railway Map 1924: King's Cross to Mallaig from The Old Book House presents the whole 605-mile long route divided into eights separate panels, printed side by side.

Where Our Tea Comes From map is a reproduction by the Old House Books of a decorative poster issued in 1937 by the Tea Market Expansion Board, a group of companies formed to encourage sales.

The Southern Railway Map 1924: Waterloo to Padstow and Ilfracombe from The Old Book House presents the whole route divided into six separate panels: from Waterloo past Exeter’s St David’s station to Colebrooke Junction and then either northwards to Ilfracombe via Barnstaple, or westwards to Padstow. Unlike its companion maps presenting other famous railway routes, this title is printed on a 62 x 90cm sheet....

Where Our Tea Comes From wall map, size 58 x 94 cm (23"x 37" approx), is a reproduction by the Old House Books of a decorative poster issued in 1937 by the Tea Market Expansion Board, a group of companies formed to encourage sales.

Lancashire and Yorkshire in a series of nine sheets from Old House Books covering England and Wales and reproducing mapping originally published in 1897 in The Royal English Atlas to mark Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. Each map comes with a small booklet describing Victorian Britain and is presented in a protective envelope.