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Cassell 6 - Guides to Sidmouth

The Day Brothers were Sidmouth proprietors with premises in the High Street. They advertised themselves as high class stationers, booksellers, newsagents etc. and were the office of the Sidmouth Observer and visitor’s list; Published every Wednesday, price one penny. They published a guide to Sidmouth in 1888 or 1889; Rambles Round About Sidmouth – being a guide to the pretty walks and favourite drives of this fashionable health resort. This work was written and compiled by C D S and was available as a paperback for 6d. This guide is relatively scarce and was possibly not a commercial success, which would explain its rapid replacement. The map in this work was taken from the W & A K Johnston map and covered a wide area surrounding Sidmouth.

In 1894 Macvean and Williams published their guide to Sidmouth. As they note in the preface, much of the content was the work of P O Hutchinson, local historian and writer of works on Sidmouth and environments. The work was issued in attractive original paper-covered printed boards and included a one-page map as well as 6 photographic plates. This book seems to have replaced the guide Rambles Round Sidmouth publshed just a few years before but with a smaller portion of the same W & A K Johnston map. The map being once again a transfer of the plates of Johnston’s Modern Map of England and Wales but now in colour. 

Cassell / Day Brothers 

Size: 192 x 256 mm.                        English Miles 69.16 – 1 Degree (20 = 92 mm). 

PUBLISHED BY DAY BROTHERS, WITH THEIR GUIDE TO SIDMOUTH above top border. Signature: Engraved by W & A K Johnston. Edinburgh & London. Detailed map of east Devon with parts of south Somerset and west Dorset; Sidmouth centrally. Barnstaple (top left) and Castle Cary (top right) with coast of Devon and Dorset from Torquay to Portland. Railways complete to 1888. 

1. 1889            Rambles Round About Sidmouth  Sidmouth. Day Brothers. (1889).      KB.


 

2. 1894           Map title now SIDMOUTH AND SURROUNDING DISTRICT. (Ee) with scale bar below. Signature: Engraved by W & A K Johnston. Edinburgh & London. (EeOS). Map shows a smaller area north and east of Tor Bay including Dulverton and Taunton to Lyme Regis. Size: 165 x 120 mm. English Miles (5 + 10 = 55). 

The English Riviera: a guide to Sidmouth; with remarks on its history, climate, amusements by Neil Macvean and Leonard Williams      

Sidmouth. Day Bros. 1894.      DevA, KB, [NDL], [Exm]. 




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