George Washington Bacon 3

Bacon 3

The following maps were taken from an unidentified set of plates. The scale is unusual at 3 miles to an inch and the maps so far seen have circles radiating out from Exeter, previously only seen in the revised Cary maps by George Richmond and A H Swiss (Batten and Bennett 138A). Both maps were printed by Bacon and then put in covers for local firms. The covers are a typical size for Bacon (170 x 100 mm) but are bright red only with black writing and (different) illustrations of cyclists. The first map below has an extra line: Revised according to the latest Ordnance Survey but this was probably only an advertising gimmick. 



Size: 460 x 580 mm.          Scale: 3 miles to an inch (5 + 10 = 125 mm).

No Title. Imprints: G W Bacon & Co., Ltd., 127 Strand, London (AeOS). Notes: Selection of Routes, Scale bar, Reference and note Divided into 5 mile Squares and Circles with Hills to be ridden with caution (all Ee).

Three-line border broken for Launceston, Bridgewater, Somerton, Beaminster and Bridport. Area covered is that north of Plymouth and Dartmouth and south of Barnstaple (all of which are included) and east to towns above. Railways to Yealmpton and Lynton (as light railway), constructing to Northam (dotted) but not the post-1900 lines Budleigh Salterton to Exmouth or Ashton to Exeter. Folding into red cloth covers with name and address of R & M Tucker, Stationers, Honiton.

 1. 1899  

Tucker’s Cycling Road-Map Honiton and District (cover title)  

Honiton. R & M Tucker. (1899).     KB.



 2. 1900  Folding into red cloth covers with name and address of F P Davies, stationer at Brunswick Place, Dawlish. Printer’s mark 33M15 (EeOS). Railway to Northam completed but not Budleigh Salterton to Exmouth or Ashton to Exeter. Illustrated.

Davies’ Cycling Road-Map Dawlish and District (cover title)  

 Dawlish. F P Davies. (1900).            KB.



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