Black’s Guide to Dublin and the East Coast of Ireland. Illustrated with Maps and Plans. Revised and Corrected by E.D Jordan. London: A & C Black, 1899. Twenty-Third Edition. Pp, 83, [133]. Publisher’s cloth boards, worn along edges, contents in good condition.

Frontispiece folded map of Dublin city, with over 130 pages of advertisements at rear.

Black’s Guides were travel guide books published by the Adam and Charles Black firm of Edinburgh (later London) beginning in 1839. The series’ style tended towards the colloquial, with fewer cultural pretensions than its leading competitor Baedeker Guides.