George Washington Bacon 2

Bacon 2

 A plan of Plymouth with Stonehouse and Devonport was included in the early editions of Bacon’s New Large Scale Ordnance Atlas along with a number of other city plans. The atlas appeared almost each year from circa 1884 to 1893. From about 1895 Bacon issued his atlas as the Commercial and Library Atlas of the British Isles (cover title was Bacon’s Popular Atlas) with the county maps (see B&B 134) and omitted the city plans.

In 1900-1901 John Bartholomew issued his Royal Atlas. This included a map of Plymouth & Devonport and the similarity to the Bacon map is startling (see Bartholomew Royal Atlas maps 6d). Although there are numerous other town plans in both atlases, no other pair of maps bears such a resemblance. Another map which bears close resemblance but is clearly from a different drawer and engraver is Weller’s plan for The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales (see F S Weller in Victorian Maps of Devon). 

Size: 315 x 470 mm.          Scale 6 Inches to a Mile (1/2 = 75 mm). 

PLAN OF PLYMOUTH, DEVONPORT, STONEHOUSE &c. FROM THE ORDNANCE SURVEY. (De). Page number printed (woodblock) 81 (EaOS). No imprints or signatures.                                 

1. 1884  New Large Scale Ordnance Atlas Of The British Isles    London. George W Bacon. (1884). TB. 

2. 1885  Page number printed (woodblock) 84 (EaOS). Pier (opposite Jetty) deleted in Mill Bay, Prison deleted in Plymouth. Collingwood Villas added, Devonport and Mutley Stations added (with rail lines), considerable new developments east (eg Connaught Avenue) and west (eg Seaton Avenue) at Mutley Plain, developments at Lipson Vale, Little Saltram, St Johns Road, around Inner Basin, behind Wilton Street and at Catwater. Mount Batten Pier added with steamboat pier at Mt Batten. Smaller additions include St Judes Chapel and Board School in Rope Walk. Illustrated. 

New Large Scale Ordnance Atlas Of The British Isles 
 London. G W Bacon. (1885). KB, TB.



 3. 1886  Page number printed (woodblock) 85 (EaOS). Reservoir added in Devonport. Boiler shop and Stables added at Keyham. St Leyan and Saltash New Roads developed in Morice Town. Albert Villas added, new buildings at Seymour Crescent, deletion in Argaum Road, previous prison area developed, more buildings to east of Alexandra Road, second line of buildings at Alton Terrace. 

New Large Scale Atlas of the British Isles from the Ordnance Survey
 London. G W Bacon & Co. 1886, 1887. TB; TB.


New Large Scale Map of the British Isles from the Ordnance Survey
London. G W Bacon & Co. 1888. TB.

New Large Scale Map of the British Isles from the Ordnance Survey
London. G W Bacon & Co. 1891. BL[1].

4. 1895 Title PLYMOUTH 96 (EaOS and on reverse). Copyright. All rights reserved (AeOS). Cemetery and quarry added (Da). 

Loose sheet formerly in the collection of FB.

RETURN to List of Bacon Maps

NOTES:

[1] BL xf3/2395.


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