John Cary - A H Swiss 

Gall & Inglis were successful publishers who had bought part of the stock of George Frederick Cruchley when it came up for auction in 1877. Some of the plates sold included those of John Cary that Cruchley had acquired over thirty years previously. These were again revised and issued in cooperation with local companies such as A H Swiss of Devonport. These were fox‑hunting maps of Devon produced c.1890, and are transfers from the plates of the Improved Map of England of Wales with added railways and hunt information.

Three maps by Swiss covering Devon are known. Two maps covering basically north Devon and south Devon on two sheets are described in The Victorian Maps of Devon (entry B&B 166). It was thought that there was a map on one sheet; Swiss & Co.s No. 1 Map. Such a map has now been found and added to the original entry. However, another map also No. 1 covers only parts of sheets 2 and 9 of Cary's Improved Map. The sea area south of Plymouth has been cut off and the northern part includes Stratton and Crediton. 

 

Cary Improved 4 (Swiss)  

Size: 590 x 615 mm.  SCALE HALF AN INCH TO A MILE (10 = 130 mm). 

A H SWISS'S HUNTING MAP OF PLYMOUTH & DEVONPORT DISTRICT. Imprint: A H SWISS. PUBLISHER. 111 and 112 FORE STREET, DEVONPORT. (CeOS)[1]. The map is provided with circles radiating out from the centre of Plymouth (see also Doidge, but not identical). Note (Ae) reads: The distance between each Circle is One Mile, with Plymouth Railway Station as centre.

Area covered includes Greber Head to Slapton Cellars on south coast and as far north as Stratton and Crediton. L&SWR line Tavistock to Plymouth but no line to Kingsbridge (1890 and Dec. 1893 respectively). 

1.1890             A H Swiss' No. I Hunting Map. The Plymouth District    (folding into red covers with index to hunts)      Devonport. A H Swiss. (1890).     KB[2].


For Cary´s county maps refer to The Printed Maps of Devon entries 51, 54, 55, 69, 71, 73 and 92. Click reference number to open directly.

For Cary´s New Map of England and Wales so-called "square atlas" - click here.

For Cary´s Improved Map of England and Wales as issued by Cary and others - click here.

For the section of Improved Map of England and Wales as issued by John Heydon - click here.

For the section of Improved Map of England and Wales as issued by Arthur Westley - click here.

For the section of Improved Map of England and Wales as issued by Thomas Doidge - click here.

For the 2 sections of Improved Map of England and Wales as used by Beatrix Cresswell - click here.

For the section of Cary´s Reduced Ordnance Map of England and Wales as issued by G F Cruchley to show Dartmoor Maneouvres - click here.

To return / access the Catalogue of Maps in this work - click here

[1] A thin strip of paper has been pasted over a note on two hunts (below title), suggesting an earlier version may be extant. 

[2] Author’s copy has m/s date 1895 on inside cover, so could be up to five years later.

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