BRADSHAW, GEORGE (1801-1853), English printer and publisher, was born near Pendleton, Lancashire, on July 29, 1801. On leaving school he was apprenticed to an engraver at Manches ter, eventually setting up on his own account in that city as an en graver and printer-principally of maps. His name was already known as the publisher of Bradshaw's Maps of Inland Navigation, when in 1839, soon after the introduction of railways, he published Bradshaw's Railway Time Tables, the title being changed in 1840 to Bradshaw's Railway Companion. A new volume was issued at occasional intervals, a supplementary monthly time-sheet serving to keep the book up to date. In Dec. 1841 Bradshaw began to issue the time-tables for each month under the title Brad shaw's Monthly Railway Guide. In June 1847 was issued the first number of Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide.