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  4th 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 GT 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, ...3rd 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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