Brendon & Son 2

Brendon & Son, while being well-known for their publishing of the Plymouth Transactions (given the relationship with the President) also published two maps which appeared in  Eyre Brothers’ Post Office Plymouth and Devonport District Directory. Their first map was originally published c. 1876 and then updated when it appeared in the Third Edition of the directory. The directory changed hands frequently and included other maps. The work became Eyre´s Post Office Plymouth and Devnport District Directory in 1890 but in the  4^th edition of 1888 another Brendon map appeared. Other issues of the directory, which was published by Eyre Brothers themslves from 1880 to 1888 and by others until 1904, included either a map by Maddock, lithographed by John Smith or by Creber.

The map below is very much a sailor´s or mariner´s chart. The soundings throughout the harbour area are set out in a systematic matrix and there is a note concerning high and low water. In addition most of the urban area is only shown in block format and only the most important buildings shown. However, almost anything of a nautical nature is as highlighted, e.g. all bouys, timberyards, stores, shipwrights etc. It may be a coincidene but in May1887 Richard Nicholls Worth held a lecture at the Plymouth Institution on Tidal and General Notes on Cattewater.

The WDRO has an interesting booklet of rules for compositors and readers who were employed at the company dating from 1905. (Plymouth Local Studies Library reference P655). 

 

Size:  x ### mm.  Scale 12 Inches to 1 Statute Mile. 

PLAN OF CATTEWATER AND SUTTON HARBOURS Shewing the RAILWAY CONNECTIONS WITH THE G^T WESTERN AND SOUTH WESTERN SYSTEMS (Aa) with Copyright below. Imprint: W. BRENDON & SON, LITH, PLYMOUTH. (CeOS, under Great Western Docks). Note on tides and depths cover the whole of the harbour areas.

From the Market (Aa) and the Citadel to the River Plym to the east.

 

1. 1888   Eyre Brothers’ Post Office Plymouth and Devonport District Directory, ...3^rd Edition

                London. Eyre Brothers. 1888-89.   DevA.

For a full description of George P Butcher and the identity of the Eyre Brothers go to my special article:

The Eyre Brothers

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 Theophilus Creber 

In 2016 the British Library held an exhibition “There will be fun” centred on the entertainment industry of the Victorian era. Laurence Worms in his blog The Bookhunter on Safari mentions Theophilus Creber in connection with a number of posters and a newspaer clöipping. The following is his portrayal of Creber in connection with the exhibits: This Sanger poster [illustrated below] is by the prosperous Theophilus Creber (1845-1902) of Plymouth, who described himself as a “show printer”. Brought up in Devonport Workhouse (not as an inmate, his father was the teacher), he was a man in love with his work to the extent that he took his own lease on the old Olympia Theatre in Plymouth and re-opened it in 1887 as a Theatre of Varieties, promising “first class entertainments … free from anything objectionable in the slightest degree”. By 1898 he had taken over the Theatre Royal at Eastbourne, spending a fortune on refurbishing it.[1]
He goes on to explain the contents of a newspaper clipping which was illustrated: An account in “The Era” describes the work carried out in elaborate detail. He also owned Fred Ginster’s Circus, which was put up for auction, lock, stock and barrel, later that year – possibly to pay for the refurbishment: “The Circus Plant is in First-rate Condition, and is now Travelling, and will be up to Day of Sale. It comprises the following :– 100 Horses and Ponies, Procession Carriages, Living Waggons, Luggage Waggons, Pony Traps, Splendid Sets of Red and Blue Leather Harness, Waggon Harness, &c.; very Large Two-Pole Tent, with Wallings and Seating Complete; Horse Tents, Dressing Tents, Property Tents, Procession Dresses, Shields, Banners, Flags, &c.; Twenty-five of the Best and Cleverest Horses in the Circus Business; Four Black Hungarian Horses, Performing Together, and to do Separate Trick and Menage Acts; Dignity and Impudence, the Big Horse and the Little Pony, which do Three Acts; Ten of the Best Ring Horses in the Business, go to every Act; the Smallest and Prettiest Ponies, Two White Sacred Mules, 17h. high, &c” (The Era, 17th September 1898). His business survived until 1932 when it merged with the Salisbury Press.
The Eyre brothers issued their Post Office Plymouth District Directory in 1881 but by 1900 it had already been through two different publishers before Theophilus Creber took it over in 1900. He managed to publish five ditioons before it was again taken over, this time by Swiss of Plymouth. The 13th edition has a map specially pareped by Creber.[2]

Size 493 x 691 mm.    SIX INCHES TO THE MILE (6 miles = ### mm). 

THEOPHILUS CREBER´S “COPYRIGHT” PLAN OF PLYMOUTH, DEVONPORT, STONEHOUSE, AND NEIGHBOURHOOD UP-TO-DATE across the top of the map above the border in 3 lines. Signature: CREBER LITHO PLYMOUTH (Ee). There is note on boundaries to wards which are coloured red. Scale at bottom (Ce). There is a small compass point (Ae).

The map area extends only as far as the city limits from Hamoaze to The Laira. There are two insets top right of Saltash and St Budeaux.                 

1. 1901            Eyre´s Post Office Plymouth and Devonport District Directory 13^th Edition.                        

Plymouth. T Creber. 1901.      Bod, PLY[3], DevA[4] (illustrated).

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[1] See https://ashrarebooks.com/2016/10/20/there-will-be-fun/. The Sanger poster is illustrated but is also illustrated online at https://imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/48354. Courtesyof the British Library.

[2] For full details of the directory under Eyre´s name see  https://eyre-brothers-directories-guides.blogspot.com/.

[3] PLY has a copy of the directory with no map and WDRO a copy of this map stored at 2766. They probably belong together.

[4] DevA catalogue lists a copy of this map under PM B/PLY/1904/CRE. It has directories for 1900-1904, all by Creber, but none contains a map.

 John Smith

The Eyre Brothers were publishers with premises at 10, later 26 & 27, Paternoster Square, Paternoster Row, London. Their output seems to have been limited (only a handful of entries under COPAC) but they did produce some works relevant to Devon. The George Philips map of Devon (see B&B 149) was used in a number of works designed for both tourist and local resident published by Eyre Brothers of London: The Watering Places of the South of England (1877); Eyre’s Guide to the Seaside and Visiting Resorts of Devon & Cornwall (1878); and Eyre’s Hotels of the United Kingdom (1879, 1881). In 1880 they produced a directory for the Plymouth area and Eyre Brothers’ Post Office Plymouth District Directory, embracing Plymouth, Devonport, Stonehouse, and the District Five Miles Round (First Edition, 1880-81)[1] included the Philip map of the county.

The Post Office Directory was reissued at two year intervals (with slight change of name) by other publishers from 1890 until 1904 but appeared annually from 1895[2]. The Directory was taken over by A H Swiss from 1905. Only the first edition has a map of Devon, subsequent copies included a map of the Plymouth district. The area maps by Maddock and Brendon were used in 1882-83 and 1885-86 respectively, post-1890 directories used a map lithographed by John Smith of Plymouth with the Eyre imprint first appearing c. 1896.  

Size: 405 x 550 mm.  Scale 6 Inches to a Mile  (1 = 150 mm) mile. 

Title in panel (Ce):  Map of PLYMOUTH, DEVONPORT, STONEHOUSE, AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. Signature: JOHN SMITH, LITHO. PLYMOUTH (EaOS). Scale bar (CeOS).

Area shown is between Hamoaze and Cattewater only, but north to include all of Compton Ward. Extends east only to Little Efford. 

1. 1890    Eyre’s Post Office Plymouth and Devonport District Directory, ... Fifth Edition

                London. W H Hood. 1890-91.        NLS, DevA.

                               

                Eyre’s Post Office Plymouth and Devonport District Directory, ... Sixth Edition

               London. J G Hammond & Co. 1893.          KB.

 

2. 1895    Size: 415 x 620 mm. 

             Eyre’s Post Office Plymouth and Devonport District Directory, ...7^th Edition

             London. J G Hammond & Co. 1895.                 DevA.

 3. 1896   EYRE`S DIRECTORY MAP OF PLYMOUTH, DEVONPORT, STONEHOUSE, AND NEIGHBOURHOOD added above the top border. Frame to title removed. Scale changed to upper case. Signature now bottom right (EeOS). Numerous new developments especially at Royal Naval barracks north of Keyham Lake, at Mannamead south of Hartley Reservoir and at Cattedown. Size: 410 x 552 mm. Illustrated.

                Eyre’s Post Office Plymouth and Devonport District Directory, ...8^th Edition

                London. J G Hammond & Co. 1896.                 NLS.

 

4. 1897    Size: 370 x 556 mm. Map now shows both Little Efford and Efford Manor. New ward names, e.g. Compton, Frankfort and Mutley wards added (capital letters). Drake’s Island added below border. Smith signature deleted. Previous boundary lines deleted.

 

                Eyre’s Post Office Plymouth and Devonport District Directory, ...9^th / 10^th / 11th Edition

                        London. J G Hammond & Co. 1897, 1898.         WDRO; NLS; BL.

For a complete overview of the Eye Brothers and the man behind the company - George P Butcher - go to my special web blog at:

The Eyre Brothers

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[1] I would like to thank the staff, and especially Jenny Parkerson, at NLS for their assistance concerning these directories.

[2] West Devon Record Office have a complete set of copies from the 1^st  to 16^th editions. It was later taken over and renamed by Swiss & Co. Only the 4^th and 5^th editions have a map (4^th with plan of Cattewater and Sutton Harbour). Theophilus Creber of Plymouth issued the 12^th to 16^th editions and included a new map in some or all of these.

William  Henry Maddock

William Henry Maddock was a printer, engraver and lithographer in Plymouth and appears to have been active from circa 1848 to the mid-1880s. His only known publishing venture would seem to be the map below, dated 1848, and there may have been a reprint in 1853 (see Brockett). Although there is no address on the map below, Maddock was at 32 Frankfort Street 1852-56 but in 1890 the address was 86 Treville Street. He seems to have been a specialist lithographer and as well as printing the three maps listed below also printed two for John Heydon of the same area; he also lithographed a map of Exeter for Jewitt - a Plan Of The City Of Exeter appeared in a guide book to the Agricultural Exhibition in Exeter in 1850 (published by H. J. Wallis, Exeter, and R. Lidstone, Plymouth) and which bears the signature of Maddock & Balderston Lithographers, 17, Bedford St Plymouth; and a Map Of Salcombe, Kingsbridge, And Surroundings for James Fairweather (c.f.) of 1884 has the signature W H Maddock, Lith, Plymouth.

Advert and crest for Maddock and Balderston in Jewitt´s guide to Exeter

Maddock 1 - map of Plymouth

Size: 425 x 665 mm. SCALE OF 9 CHAINS TO THE INCH (10 + 80 = 250 mm).

A NEW MAP OF PLYMOUTH, DEVONPORT, STONEHOUSE, STOKE & MORICE TOWN, WITH THE RAILWAYS & RECENT IMPROVEMENTS. (Ea). Date 1848 immediately below and signature below this: Published & Lithographed By W. H. MADDOCK, Plymouth.

Description: detailed block plan of the area from Hamoaze to east coast of Catwater with Deadman's Bay. North as far as Keyham House and Rose Hill House. Railway lines shown to vicinity of King Street, then dotted to Intended Term (inus) and out to Stoke and dotted to Intd Station and out past Keyham House. Scale bar (Ce-Cd). 

1. 1848 Cover title.

Maddock’s Strangers’ Guide to Plymouth, Devonport, Stonehouse, Stoke. And Morice Town
Plymouth. W H Maddock. 1848. KB.

Maddock 2 - Cornelius Guide to Dawlish

W M Cornelius had premises at 15 Strand, Dawlish where he traded as Printer, Bookbinder, Bookseller and Stationer. In common with many booksellers in Devon at the time, he offered a number of supplementary services such as shoe warehouse, Berlin and fancy repository, sold jewellery of every description and also toys and fancy goods in great variety. In co-operation with Mudie's he operated a Circulating Library. In his guide he also advertised the Dawlish Times (published every Thursday) and may have been responsible for the Dawlish Times Arrival Book – kept at the Library, where Visitors are requested to enter their Names that they may be correctly inserted in the Directory.
Cornelius published, and probably wrote, a guide to the area: Cornelius's Guide. Dawlish: Historical And Topographical, which had reached a fourth edition by c.1878. The guide included an advertising section and a rather simple and sketch-like fold-out plan of Dawlish, on the reverse of which were two attractive lithographic views of Dawlish executed by James Townsend of Exeter. Townsend and S Eland published Devonshire Antiquities by John Chudleigh together which contained a map by Townsend in 1892.

Size: 340 x 300 mm. No scale.

MAP OF DAWLISH and its Vicinity. (Ea) in plain panel with imprint: Published by W M CORNELIUS, 15, Strand. Dawlish. Engraver’s signature: Maddock, Lith, Plym (Aa).
The area covered is from Clevelands (Ae) along the coast and as far east as Seckmaton (Farm or House) (Ec) and north as far as Little Weston (Da). Illustrated.

1. 1868

Cornelius's Guide. Dawlish: Historical And Topographical, ...
Dawlish. W M Cornelius. (1868). KB, BL[1].

Cornelius's Guide. Dawlish:  ...Second Edition
Dawlish. W M Cornelius. (1873). DevA.

2. 1874 Engraver’s signature removed. Gent's and Ladies’ Bathing Coves added.

Cornelius's Guide. Dawlish:  ...Third Edition
Dawlish. W M Cornelius. (1873). DevA.

Cornelius's Guide. Dawlish:  ...Fourth Edition
Dawlish. W M Cornelius. (1878[2]). KB, [DevA, NDL].

Maddock 3 - Eyre Brothers

Maddock published this new map of Plymouth etc. in 1881 and the following year it was included in Eyre Brothers’ Post Office Plymouth and Devonport District Directory. Subsequent issues of the directory, which was published by Eyre Brothers from 1880 to c. 1904, included either a map by Brendon (see Worth 1) or lithographed by John Smith (see Smith, J). Some time before 1887 the map was acquired by Wood & Tozer who reissued it in covers for tourists.

William Wood published a number of maps and it is not clear why he chose to republish the second map, below, at a larger size. The name W P Cooper appears for the first time, although W G Cooper signed a later version of the map appearing in The Hand Book To South Devon And Dartmoor published by William Wood in 1872 (c.f.). The map was much rediuced lithographically before being included in an album of views of Plymouth and Devonport in the 1890s. Although the album has no publisher’s details, it may have been issued by or on behalf of Wood and Tozer as their imprint has been left on the map. It is a typical leporello-style collection of photo-gravure illustrations in cloth boards with gilt design, produced in Germany towards the end of the century.

Size: 280 x 315 mm. (1/2 = 66 mm) 6 INCHES TO A MILE.

MAP OF PLYMOUTH, DEVONPORT, STONEHOUSE, STOKE, MORICE TOWN, & FORD, (De). Signature below: LITHOGRAPHED & PUBLISHED BY W. H. MADDOCK, TREVILLE ST, COPYRIGHT 1881 and above the scale. North point (Ac, in Hamoaze).

1. 1881  Description: Highly detailed block plan of the area from Hamoaze to west half of Catdown with Deadman's Bay. North as far as Ford, Outland and Mannamead. GWR and L&SW railways.

Map of Plymouth, Stonehouse, Stoke, Morice Town & Ford
Plymouth. W H Maddock. 1881. DevA.

2. 1882 Size is increased to: 320 x 460 mm. The scale now measures approx. 76 mm.

Eyre Brothers’ Post Office Plymouth and Devonport District Directory, ...2nd Edition
London. Eyre Brothers. 1882-83. NLS (Illustrated).

 

3. 1887     The scale now measures 72 mm and two extra lines have been added for 1380 and 2040 yards. The imprint is now: PUBLISHED BY WOOD & TOZER, FORE STREET, DEVONPORT. COPYRIGHT 1887. Signature (Ae): W. P. COOPER, LITHOGRAPHER, UNION STREET, PLYMOUTH. New developments at Trusham Villa (Ec), by Jude's Terrace (Ed) and Johnston Terrace (Aa). The name MORICE TOWN has been shifted slightly. Illustrated.

 

Map of Plymouth, Stonehouse, Devonport and Suburbs – Orange paper covers
Devonport. Wood & Tozer. 1887. KB.

4. 1890 Size is reduced to: 175 x 255 mm. The scale now measures 43 mm. Imprint as before but signature removed. Detail lost at Mt Edgcumbe and Mt Batten (i.e. impression very light).

The Album of Plymouth and Devonport Views – red cover printed in Germany
[Devonport. Wood & Tozer. 1890.] KB.

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[1] BL 10368.aaa.19 with accession date 22 JU 69. This first edition contains 5 attractive vignettes by Rock and Company. Text was written in 1868; a reference on page 16 states “this year (1868)”.
[2] Text has been revised as pointed out in the Preface. A footnote on page 94 mentions a fire at the theatre on 13th June 1878. This edition has two views of Dawlish on the reverse.

 

ANON 2 - FARLEY’S HOTEL

Farley´s Hotel was located at 46-47 Union Street in Plymouth and got its name from the proprietor from 1853 to 1877, Mrs Farley, although the premises had been a hotel / bar before she took it over. CH Walter took over the premises in 1877 and as part of the advertising for the hotel a sketch map was drawn up to show potential tourists the location. The map has been seen in four separate publications, but no doubt it appeared more frequently. Walter remained the proprietor of the hotel until 1890.[1] The adverts always included a picture of the hotel, first from the corner aspect and later from the front.
The first appearance of the map is in Percy’s Calendar & Register for 1876. This small volume was a mixture of guide book and gazetteer but with a large advertising section at the back. The Three Towns Directory published only a year later also included the map. It is also found in a guide to Berry-Pomeroy dated to approximately the same time but the advertisement was probably used in other publications too.[2]
If O E Wood, whose name can be seen under the picture of the hotel, did draw the hotel then he or she may have also drawn the map. The name is missing from the second issue. Interestingly, Doidge’s Great Book Mart (see Cary Improved 5) can be seen on the plan, opposite the hotel.
A part of the hotel (last section) was sold by Mary Walter (widow) resident in Bristol to Abraham Routley in 1898.


Size 72 x 115 mm. No scale.

No title. No signature or imprint.The map occupies 2/3 of a right hand page of the directory and is printed vertically (i.e. to read one must turn the book). At the top of the page is DEVONSHIRE CALENDAR and at the bottom an advert for Mr & Mrs Cawsey’s second hand (cast off) clothing company. The left hand page, similarly split up, has a picture of Farley’s Hotel and part of a name can be read (Ae): O E WOOD, PLYMOUTH.

Description. A very simple map of central Plymouth from Stoke (Aa) and Mill Bay (Be) to the Citadel (Ee) with Farley’s Hotel central opposite Doidge’s Great Book Mart. Illustrated above.

1. 1876    The Devonshire Calendar and Register, For 1876.
                London. Percy and Co. 1876. KB.

2. 1876 The map is the same as state 1, but on one page and with text PLAN OF THE WEST END OF PLYMOUTH Showing the Position of FARLEY's Hotel. above the map itself and centrally placed below the illustration of Farley's Hotel.

            Berry-Pomeroy Castle:An Historical and Descriptive Sketch
            Totnes. T & A Mortimore. (1876). TQ.

3. 1877  Map and illustration on same page. No title but PLYMOUTH above map (below new picture of hotel from the front with no signature) and SUITES OF ROOMS FOR FAMILIES below map. No signature or imprint to map. Now Walter’s Farley Hotel is shown centrally (in Station Road). Illustrated below.

The Three Towns Directory for Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse 

Plymouth. W J Trythall. 1877. DevA.

4. 1881 Map and description on same page. No title but WALTER`S FARLEY HOTEL at top and description of position etc. Illustrated below.

Eyre Brothers´ P O Plymouth District Directory 2nd Edition 

London. Eyre Brothers. 1881. NLS, CUL, Bod (illustrated).

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[1] Dates of ownership taken from Chris Robinson´s Plymouth at https://www.chrisrobinson.co.uk/pubs/farleys-hotel/

[2 Although here T & A Mortimore, they also used the spelling Mortimer (see entry for Gregory).

 Brendon & Son

Richard Nicholls Worth was a professional writer. He was born in 1837 at Devonport and except for a brief period in Newcastle (as editor of the Northern Daily Express) he spent all his years in or near Plymouth. As a young man he was apprenticed to R C Smith of the Devonport and Plymouth Telegraph and became chief reporter when that paper merged with the Western Morning News. After a year spent in the north he returned to the Western Morning News from 1867 to 1876.[1] During this period he researched his History of Devonport and his History of Plymouth which were published in 1870 and 1871 respectively. The timing of the second book was fortuitous as Llewellynn Jewitt (c.f.) also published a history of Plymouth a year later. Worth’s History contains four small maps but all are copies of earlier maps outside of the scope of this present work.[2]

Maybe it was the success of these books, and the latter in particular, but Worth resigned his post at the newspaper in 1876 and joined the local printing and publishing business of Brendon & Son. The map described below was included in his Guide to the Three Towns and Neighbourhood which was published soon after with a reprint a few years later with the map below. Besides updating and reissuing his History of Plymouth, Worth was a contributor to the Tourist’s Guide series published by Edward Stanford (see B&B154: South Devon and North Devon appeared circa 1878 and 1879) with information on other counties and areas beyond Devon (e.g. Wye, Kent and Surrey). He was a regular contributor to the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, and also became its President. He was also active in, and became President of, the Plymouth Institution. He died in July 1896 at Shaugh Prior.

In 1885 the same map was included in Eyre Brothers’ Post Office Plymouth and Devonport District Directory. However, for the 4th edition published in 1888 the Brendons commissioned a new map showing Cattewater and Sutton Harbour.

Other issues of the directory, which was published by Eyre Brothers from 1880 to c. 1904,  included either a map by Maddock (see Maddock 3) or lithographed by John Smith (see Smith, J). 

 Size: 453 x 620 mm. No scale. 

MAP OF PLYMOUTH, DEVONPORT AND STONEHOUSE, (De) with Copyright below (title begins left of a line through The Hoe and T of Devonport is alongside the pier on Mount Batten. Imprint: W. BRENDON & SON, LITH, PLYMOUTH. (CeOS, under Great Western Docks).

From Keyham Lake (Aa) to Mount Edgcumbe (Ae) and east to Compton (Ea) and Batten Bay (Ee).

 

1. 1876         Guide to the Three Towns and Neighbourhood by R N Worth

                     Plymouth. W Brendon & Son.(1876[3]).         DevA.

 

2. 1878          Map now 510 x 690 mm. Drake’s Island or St. Nicholas’ Island has been added and the title moved to accommodate it: title now is below The Hoe and the pier on Mount Batten deleted. Imprint is now below Firestone Bay. Rum Bay at Mount Batten now also included.

 

                      Guide to the Three Towns and Neighbourhood by R N Worth

                        Plymouth. W Brendon & Son.(1878[4]).       TQ.

 

3. 1885         Extended west (to include Torpoint): size 490 x 690 mm. As above but lacks the new developments in Sutton Ward. Illustrated by kind permission of NLS.

 

                       Eyre Brothers’ Post Office Plymouth and Devonport District Directory, ...3^rd Edition

                       London. Eyre Brothers. 1885-86.                   NLS.

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[1] Summarised from Brian Moseley’s text at www.plymouthdata.info - an excellent site for Plymouth history generally.

[2] They were: a map of Plymouth Haven - a copy of Daniel Lysons’ own extract of a much larger manuscript map prepared for Henry VIII which had appeared in Magna Britannia (B&B 89); a copy of a manuscript map prepared for Queen Elizabeth I by Spry; the True Mapp was taken from a map executed by Wenceslas Hollar for inclusion in A True Narration of the most Observable Passages of 1644; and finally, The Plan of Plymouth was copied from the large inset map of Plymouth contained in Benjamin Donn’s 12 sheet map of Devon executed in 1765 (B&B 44). All four maps have been redrawn to a much reduced size of approx. 100 x 160 mm retaining most of the information but without the same detail.

[3] Last date in text.

[4] Volume has adverts for the Provident Life insurance which are dated 1878.