Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand Book to London: And Its Environs 1862
George Bradshaw (1801-1853) was an English cartographer, printer, and publisher. He is most famous for developing a series of railway timetables and guides. The books became synonymous with its publisher so that, for Victorians and Edwardians alike, a railway timetable was “a Bradshaw.” After his death, Punch magazine said of Bradshaw's labors: “seldom has the gigantic intellect of man been employed upon a work of greater utility.”