John Bartholomew 6 – ROYAL ATLAS 

As well as taking transfers from the Imperial Map to provide sectional maps for guide books as illustrated, from March 1899 to May 1900 Bartholomew also used transfers to produce a new set of regional maps. These were published in 20 parts to produce The Royal Atlas of England and Wales (edited by J Bartholomew and published by George Newnes Limited). South Devon was sheet XXXI with North Devon on sheets XXV and XXVI.

Also included in the Atlas was a second overview map of England and Wales on six sheets with a map of the West Country (Plate 12). Transfers from this map[1] were used to produce a cyclist’s map specially prepared for the Pattisons whisky company. Around the county map there are vignette scenes from the Pattisons` distillery and two of their products. The reverse is titled Pattisons` Scotch Whisky is invaluable to all Travellers & Sportsmen Abroad or at home who go in for Cycling - Golfing - Curling - Hunting - Coaching - Yachting - Shooting - Fishing and there are delightful little engravings of each of the sports listed and the addresses of the Pattisons company.[2]

The atlas also contained a number of town and city plans including that of Plymouth and Devonport which has been included here. 

Bartholomew Imperial Map 6a-c (Royal Atlas) 

Size: 320 x 425 mm (each). SCALE 4 MILES TO AN INCH (12 = 75 mm).               

Three maps cover Devon. Each map has ROYAL ATLAS OF ENGLAND & WALES (AaOS) with SECTION (Roman numerals) (area covered) (CaOS) and PLATE (number) (EaOS). Signature: John Bartholmew & Co., Edinr. Delt (EeOS). A key (BeOS) to different categories of roads.


A. SECTION XXV, BARNSTAPLE – PLATE 44: The coast is shown from Trevose Head at Padstow as far as the The Foreland in the east and south including Moreton Hampstead.


 

B. SECTION XXVI, EXETER – PLATE 45: The coast is shown from Countisbury as far as Burnham in the north and from Teignmouth to Portland Bill in the south. The map covers everything east of Chulmleigh and north of Newton Abbot.

 

C. SECTION XXXI, PLYMOUTH – PLATE 50: The coast is shown from Fowey as far as Otterton and. The map covers everything south of Launceston and Moreton Hampstead. Two insets show Plymouth and Tor Bay in more detail (2 miles to the inch). 

1. 1900  Royal Atlas Of England & Wales

                London. George Newnes. 1900.      KB.              

As well as the three maps covering the county, Bartholomew also included a map of the Plymouth area in the section at the back of the Royal Atlas for town and city plans.  Although clearly not taken from the Imperial Map it has been included here.

The map is an extremely close copy of the map used by G W Bacon from 1884 in his New Large Scale Ordnance Atlas and which was published in the same atlas but with other titles until about 1893 (see Victorian Maps of Devon B&B 134). The city plans were discontinued when the atlas appeared as Commercial and Library Atlas. The map below is the only one of several city plans included in both Bacon’s Ordnance Atlas and in Bartholomew‘s Royal Atlas which look in any way similar. The differences to Bacon’s earlier map are that the  map size is altered from 330 mm in the height and 460 mm width (although within the frame lines the height is almost identical). The title of Bacon’s map is PLAN OF PLYMOUTH, DEVONPORT AND STONEHOUSE &c within the map area (De) with the scale. The right hand margin has been brought in, and the remaining areas almost filled in with new housing developments. Ford, previously little developed, is now comprehensively redrawn with new estates etc. Some roads and lettering are identical while some coastlines show minimal differences (cf Bacon 2).

No other map has been seen which Bartholomew took over from Bacon. Additionally, Bartholomew is not known to have copied the work of others, and did not copy any of the other city plans used by Bacon and clearly prepared new and very different plans for cities which he included. This map remains a bit of an anomaly.

 Bartholomew Imperial Map 6d (Royal Atlas) 


Size: 330 x 425 mm.   Scale 6 Inches to a Mile (1/2 = 75 mm).

Same format as the maps covering Devon. The map has ROYAL ATLAS OF ENGLAND & WALES (AaOS) with PLYMOUTH & DEVONPORT (area covered) (CaOS) and PLATE 69 (EaOS). Signature: John Bartholmew & Co., Edinr. Delt (EeOS). Fairly detailed map of the area covered by the two towns. Railway sations at Millbay and Friary as well as at Sutton Harbour. Mount Edgcumbe (Ae) and Mt Batten (Ee) and north to Outland (Ca).         (DevA).

 

1. 1900  Royal Atlas Of England & Wales ... Edited by J Bartholomew.

                London. George Newnes. 1900.      KB.

Bartholomew Imperial Map 1 - See below

Bartholomew Imperial Map 2 - W H Smith´s Exeter and Environs / Plymouth & Dartmoor

Bartholomew Imperial Map 3 - maps published by Houlston & Wright / Houlston & Sons

Bartholomew Imperial Map 4 - maps used by Milligan etc. for guides to Ilfracombe

Bartholomew Imperial Map 5 - hunting maps for Hiorns & Miller

Bartholomew Imperial Map 7 - Abel Heywood´s guide to Ilfracombe

Bartholomew Imperial Map 8 - Pearson´s Gossipy Guide

In addition Bartholomew produced two further maps of South Devon for W H Smith:

Bartholomew - W H Smith 1

Bartholmew - W H Smith 2

[1] This became Bartholomew’s Tourist’s Map of England & Wales, 1040x820, still in use in the 1900s.

[2]  See Batten & Bennett; Victorian Maps; entry 175.

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