James Fairweather

 One of only two popular guide books on Salcombe to be written in the nineteenth century was Salcombe and Neighbourhood, a Descriptive and Historical Guide. This was written by the local printer and publisher, James Fairweather, who also commissioned a map by Maddock to accompany the first edition of the guide. The Preface makes it clear that much of the text had already appeared in the Salcombe Times, this was a newspaper published each Friday at the cost of one penny per issue and which included local and general news and a serial tale.

Some of the text from this work was reworked and issued as a shorter guide, Salcombe as a Health and Pleasure Resort (but with no map) about 1890[1]. The original work was revised and republished as Salcombe, Kingsbridge and Neighbourhood in a second edition in c.1896 with a new map (see Fairweather - Stanford - below).

Besides one further work on the great blizzard of 1891, Fairweather does not seem to have published anything more. In common with most Devon booksellers he offered a great number of printing services and sold a vast assortment of fancy goods. Besides the Salcombe Times, he also published the Journal for Kingsbridge. 

Fairweather 1 (Maddock) 

Size: 150 x 295 mm.     1 Inch Scale, of Statute Miles  (8 Furlongs + 4 = 125 mm). 

Map of SALCOMBE, KINGSBRIDGE, AND  SURROUNDINGS. (Ae) with imprint:  Jas. Fairweather. Signature:  W H MADDOCK, LITH, PLYMOUTH (Ee). There is a north point (Ce) and scale bar (Ae). Area shown is the area south of the mouth of the Avon to Slapton Sounds. 

1. 1884            Salcombe and Neighbourhood.

                        Salcombe. James Fairweather. 1884[2].                KB.

 

Fairweather 2 (Stanford)

Salcombe and Neighbourhood, a Descriptive and Historical Guide was written and published by James Fairweather in 1884 (see above). The book was republished[3] as Salcombe, Kingsbridge and Neighbourhood in a second edition in c.1896[4] with a different cover, type-face, new illustrations and added text, although the basic text remained. This second edition contained a much more detailed map produced by Stanford's Geographical Establishment in London and based on the latest Ordnance Survey. The map was actually parts of the same map used to produce the sectional maps in Rowe's Perambulations of Dartmoor (1896, 3^rd edition) but reduced to scale a fraction below 1" to a mile.

 

Size: 395 x 430 mm.   SCALE  (3  = 70 mm) MILES. 

A MAP OF THE COUNTRY AROUND KINGSBRIDGE & SALCOMBE. (Ae) with scale below. Imprint:  Published by Jas. Fairweather, Kingsbridge & Salcombe (Ae). Signature: Stanford's Geogl Estabt, London (EeOS). Note: Reproduced from the Ordnance map by permission of the Controller of H M Stationery Office (AeOS).

Area shown is the area south and east of the mouth of the Erme to Kingswear and including Bolt Head and Prawle Point. Inland the map extends as far as Cornwood (Aa) and Collaton St Mary (Ea). 

1. 1896 

Salcombe, Kingsbridge and Neighbourhood ... Second Edition
Salcombe and Kingsbridge. James Fairweather. (1896). KB.

Salcombe and Neighbourhood.... Third edition
Salcombe. James Fairweather. (1900). [Collicott 51:153].

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[1] Statistics used are for 1888 and 1889.

[2] Preface is dated October 1884.

[3] Cover and spine title was still Salcombe and Neighbourhood.

[4] Three references to events in 1896 (pp. 34, 55 and 195). Last population figures are for 1891 (e.g. p.46).

 EDWARD STANFORD

 Edward Stanford founded the business of Stanford's Geographical Establishment and the company became one of the most productive during the second half of the 1850s. A large number of county maps of Devon were produced by the company (see B&B 154, 155 and 161) as well as a very large number of sectional and regional maps of the county (e.g. for Cressswell and Gegory). The map below was produced at the time of the military manoeuvres which took place on Dartmoor during the year 1873. The map, Autumn Manoeuvres, 1873. Map of the Neighbourhood of Dartmoor, reduced from the Ordnance Survey (cover title), is a direct copy of the OS one inch to a mile map produced by Lieutenant-Colonel William Mudge etc (B&B74) in 1809 but reduced to exactly ¾ the scale. [1] Although not a typical tourist map, the adverts on the inside cover and the amount of detail devoted to hill-shading make it clear that it was one of Stanford’s many commercial ventures. In addition, there was considerable interest and magazines and newspapers such as the Gentleman’s Magazine and the Illustrated London News carried reports on the manoeuvres which were held on Dartmoor and also on Cannock Chase. 

Size: 711 x 638 mm (total).                                                              Scale ¾ inch to a mile (3 = 57 mm) miles.

MAP OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF DARTMOOR REDUCED FROM THE ORDNANCE SURVEY (Ee) with scale bar below. Imprint: London: Published by Edward Stanford 6 & 7, Charing Cross S. W. July 2^nd 1873. (CeOS) and signature: Stanford's Geog^l Estab^t. (EeOS).

The map shows the area from Whitston (NW) and Rame Head (SW) across to White Town (NE) and Combe Cove and Berry Head (SE). Border extended to include Rame Head.

Railways overprinted in red (Oakhampton, Kingswear and Brixham, Ashburton, Moreton Hampstead, Tavistock and to Launceston and into Cornwall from Saltash). Manoeuvre boundary area outlined in a in pink wash colour band. Illustrated, western segment lacking. 

1. 1873   Autumn Manoeuvres, 1873. Map of Dartmoor, reduced from the Ordnance Survey

                        London. Edward Stanford. 1873.                           KB.

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[1] See the late Tim Nicholson's article on Cruchley folding maps in the IMCoS JOURNAL, Spring 2003. Our thanks to Mr Nicholson for drawing our attention to this map and that by Cruchley (cf).

 Edward Croydon 2

 

W Read, who engraved this small map for the Teignmouth Guide, was a line and stipple engraver of portraits, landscapes as well as topographical views after his contemporaries[1]. He also produced 4 or more aquatints after T E Chapman for Aquatint Views of Dawlish published by Jane Gore and J Knighton in Dawlish, c. 1828. In addition he executed at least 4 aquatints after L E Reed which was also published by Croydon c. 1825. See S.76.

Size: 175 x 240 mm. Scale of Statute Miles (10 = 58 mm).

A MAP OF TEIGNMOUTH and its vicinity Reduced from the Ordnance GRAND MAP OF DEVON By Special Permission from the Right Honble THE BOARD OF ORDNANCE, Granted to Edwd Croydon. (Ee). Engraver’s signature: Engraved by W Read King St, Covt Garden. (CeOS). Piano-key style frame.

Coast is shown from Beer Head to the Mew Stone south of Berry Head and inland to Gidley and Modbury.


1. 1826 The Teignmouth Guide
Teignmouth. E Croydon. (1826), (1827). DevA, [NDL]; DevA.

The Teignmouth, Dawlish, And Torquay Guide ... by N T Carrington and others
Teignmouth. E Croydon[3]. (1830), (1833). TM; TQ

The Teignmouth, Dawlish, And Torquay Guide ... embellished with a map and lithographic views
Teignmouth. E Croydon. 1830. BL, KB[4].

The Teignmouth Guide
Teignmouth. Edward Croydon (1838). KB.

A Map Of Teignmouth And Its Vicinity ... folding map in six segments in boards
Teignmouth. E Croydon. (1840). DevA.

2. 1841 New title – A MAP OF TORQUAY and its Vicinity Reduced ... . Illustrated.

The Torquay Guide ... By Several Literary Gentlemen Torquay. E Croydon. 1841. BL[6],DevA, [Exm], TM, KB.

3. 1848 Title: A Map of the SOUTH Of DEVON Reduced ... . South Devon Railway added with line to Tor Moham (reached Torquay 1848). Illustrated.

The Torquay Guide ... 3rd edition
Teignmouth. E & G H Croydon. 1848. DevA, TM, KB.

The Teignmouth Guide ... 14th Edition
Teignmouth. Edward Croydon & George Henry Croydon. (1849). [7] KB.

The Teignmouth Guide ... 15th Edition
Teignmouth. E & G H Croydon. 1857. DevA.

The Teignmouth Guide ... 16th Edition
Teignmouth. E & G H Croydon. (1864[8]). DevA, KB.

For more information on Croydon, see my article on Torquay booksellers. Click here.

Croydon 1 - Watering Places - click here.

Croydon 3 - Torquay and its Neighbourhood - click here. 

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[1]  Mackenzie p. 258. See also Somers Cocks JVSC S.92.

[2] According to the last dates in the various texts. These are on p.9, and p.37 respectively.

[3] Both this and the next volume were also sold by C and J Rivington, Baldwin & Co. and also Whittaker and Co. in London, by Gore in Dawlish, Cole and Luscombe in Torquay and by all the Booksellers in Exeter.

[4] KB copy has printed cover and dated spine. BL (10351.aaa.45) has new covers, thus not dated, but is same work.

[5] According to the last date in text on p.12. Title page also gives Simpkin, Marshall & Co in London with Hamilton, Adams and Co as publishers but these were probably only booksellers.

[6] BL (10358.aa.9).

[7] According to the last date in the main text; p.13 is 1838. Two extra sections are added at end. The first of these is The South Devon Railway and reports the railway completed to Plymouth on April, 2^nd 1849.

[8] According to last date in the text; (pp.12 & 51). Note: DevA dates it 1863 and possibly has an edition of 1875.

 Edward Croydon 3

Handbook for Torquay 

The Handbook For Torquay and its Neighbourhood was originally published in 1854 with dated title page. There may have been two variations – with or without map – as many libraries do not mention a map. The book was probably published by Croydon for the visitors to Torquay, but he used Hamilton & Adams for London distribution as he had done for other works and the London printers Bradbury and Evans of Whitefriars. The work was slightly revised 15 years later and reissued. All copies of this “second edition”so far seen have no date on the title page but they do have an advert for Stewart‘s Handbook of the Torquay Flora on the back endpaper: this was published by Croydon in 1860 with Hamilton, Adams and Co., as co-publisher.[1]

The original text was probably written between 1852 and 1853: the first edition mentions a visit by Queen Victoria to Tor Bay in July of the last year, but this is amended in the later text to in July 1852; in a reference to a stream near Chudleigh Rock there is reference to this last Spring (1852); and a reference to temperatures states this present summer (1852). The later edition has been seen in three different versions: one version is text only; a second is with text and map; and the third volume has text, map and six vignette illustrations and a folding view of Torquay from the Pier.[2] 

Size: 500 x 315 mm.    SCALE OF MILES (2 = 90 mm).                   

TORQUAY AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD, PUBLISHED AT CROYDON'S ROYAL LIBRARY AND READING ROOMS; TORQUAY. Taken from the Ordnance Survey. (Ee).

The whole of the coast from Teignmouth as far south as Fishcombe Point at the south end of Tor Bay is shown, together with the western areas as far as Newton Abbot. Railway to Torre only (Station and Tor Moham named but not station name as such).

Revised September 2022

1. 1854    The Handbook For Torquay and its Neighbourhood, with the natural history of the district  

                Torquay: E Croydon. London: Hamilton & Adams. 1854.    KB, Bod, LoC, California (Sutro).

                 The Handbook For Torquay and its Neighbourhood, with the natural history of the district 

                Torquay: E Croydon. London: Hamilton & Adams. (1860). KB, Bod, Lei.[3]

For more information on Croydon, see my article on Torquay booksellers. Click here.

Croydon 1 - Watering Places - click here.

Croydon 2 - The Teignmouth Guide (later also The Torquay Guide) - click here.

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[1] This “second” edition has 287 pages of text and includes the map described above. The 1854 edition had vii + 293 pp.

[2] These seem to be unrecorded by Somers Cocks. All lithographs bear the words Pub(lished) by E Croydon together with some reference to The Library or Royal Library.

[3]  Copies are recorded at Bideford and Totnes but not seen. Tavistock Library also has an 1825 Croydon guide to Tavistock on its catalogue.

E Culverwell / Richard Lethaby

(Peter Orlando Hutchison) 

This simple sketch map of the town of Sidmouth is known in two states, but in works separated by nearly twenty-five years. It was originally printed in The Sidmouth Directory, September 28th, 1869, published by Richard Lethaby (on the first of every month)[1]. The second version of 1894 was included in issues of the eighth edition of P O Hutchinson‘s guide to Sidmouth[2]. The map was incorrectly ascribed to Culverwell in the First Edition of Tourist Maps.

Originally appearing in 1857 as A New Guide to Sidmouth and the Neighbourhood, Hutchinson’s guide was reissued from 1862 as A Guide to the Town and Neighbourhood of Sidmouth. For the 8th edition a new title was chosen and this, much earlier, map included. This sketch map appears in all paperback copies of this edition inspected. One hardback edition at Devon Archives also includes a much later, and lithographically reproduced, version of a map by Wallis[3]. The small Sidmouth plan was obviously pasted in at a much later date.

E Culverwell and Sons had premises on Fore Street, Sidmouth, where they were active as booksellers, stationers, bookbinders and newsagents according to advertising in the guide. They were a typical seaside business also selling fancy goods and fishing tackle as well as operators of a circulating library of some 6000 books. They were advertising a Map Twenty Miles Round Sidmouth for ninepence. This was probably the Wallis map described above. They possibly took over old stock and had lithographs prepared.

Although the Wallis map (which accompanies the sketch map in the Devon Archives copy) is dated 1836, the two maps could well have been brought together later, ie this might be a much later map. The second state has additions such as road names for Station Road and Alexandria Road: these were named for the arrival of the railway with the opening of the station in 1874 and in commemoration of the battle of Alexandria and renamed circa 1882.For the Ninth Edition (and later) Culverwell included the Wallis map described above (in hardback edition) as well as a very crude town map (in paperback version). The author has two copies of the Ninth Edition, however, the two covers are distinctly different. The page size is fractionally larger on one copy (8 mm and 5 mm h x w) although the guide book text is identical. There are no title pages, the paperback cover bearing title an contents (with different maps described as being present). This was very possibly published post-1901.

Size: 160 x 220 mm.  Scale Of 880 Yards Or Half A Mile (9  = 83 mm).                                                                        

MAP OF THE TOWN OF SIDMOUTH (CeOS). Plain sketch map of Sidmouth area. Printed on yellow paper and pasted in to accompany larger map (see text).

The area covered is from The Sea (Ae) as far as Arcot House and Livorna Cottage (Ee). There is no border but the scale bar is just below trimmed edge with scale explanantion below the scale line. Special houses are added in a rather crude script, e.g. Broadway. No railway. 

1. 1869            Map Of Sidmouth issued in        

                        Sidmouth. The Sidmouth Directory. 1869.   

 

          Map Of Sidmouth – bound with second map.  DevA.

 

 

2. 1894   Title removed. At the top of the map is a note To Golf Links & Salter’s Cross (i.e. would have been lost if original map was in fact trimmed) and a little below that is the scale bar with nine markings but no explanantion. Broadway becomes The Manor (with Lodge on main road).The railway is shown finishing on the Exeter and Ottery road, named Station Road in front of The Manor. Additional extra information in tidy script, e.g. The Alma and Foot Bridge (Ae). Illustrated. 

 An Illustrated Guide to the Town and Neighbourhood of Sidmouth; ... Eighth Edition  

Sidmouth. E Culverwell. (1894). BL, DevA. 

 

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[1] It is illustrated in Peter Orlando Hutchison of Sidmouth, Devon 1810-1897; by Catherine Lineham; private printing; (1983). See p. 19. Source not known but probably Sidmouth Library.

[2] See Hutchinson 2 and 3 for details of the earlier maps he used.

[3] This copy is found pasted in as the inside endpaper to a small booklet enclosing a second, larger folding map first published in 1822 by J Wallis (c.f.) but published here by J Harvey and dated 1836 (see Wallis state 2). It is on yellow paper .

 Edward Croydon, Senior and Junior

For more information on Croydon, see my article on Torquay booksellers. Click here.

Edward Croydon and his two sons, Henry George (Teignmouth) and Edward (Torquay) published three maps.

Croydon 1 - see below.

Croydon 2 - The Teignmouth Guide (later also The Torquay Guide) - click here.

Croydon 3 - Torquay and its Neighbourhood - click here. 

In 1817 Edward Croydon printed and sold a most attractive guide books of Devon. The Guide to the Watering Places, on the Coast, Between the Exe and the Dart; … consisted of sixteen (and occasionally found with 17) coloured aquatints (of which four are folding) by D Havell, T Shury, and J C Stadler, after drawings by W B Noble (JVSC S.64). This was originally issued in three parts published in 1817 and 1818 with a map engraved by J Smith of London when bound complete[1]. Although all title pages to the first printing are dated 1817, at least seven of the views included are dated June 15 1818 suggesting the title page was issued with the first instalment and bound in after the series was completed. The text to this work was enlarged and appeared again in 1830 in The Teignmouth, Dawlish, And Torquay Guide suggesting that the original text was also written by N T Carrington (see Croydon 2). Croydon also published The Natural History of the District by W Turton & J F Kingston which lists the different species of flora, fauna and minerals of Devon and is believed to be Part II of Watering Places circa 1820.

William Bonneau Noble (1780-1831) was a landscape painter in water-colours who began life as a teacher of drawing. For some years he was very successful, but although he had two views in the exhibition of 1811 he became dejected and after failing to commit suicide in 1825, he finally died of decline in 1831.

Edward Croydon was printer, bookseller, publisher, stationer, engraver, ran a print and music warehouse as well as managing a circulating library. Throughout his career he was associated with premises at Regent Place in Teignmouth and is listed in many directories from c.1823.

George Henry Croydon also became a printer, working in Teignmouth from his father's address at Regent Place from c.1848. The two Teignmouth Croydons were trading as Edward and George Henry Croydon from about 1848 to 1862. The Teignmouth Guide, which continued to be reissued from 1826 when it was published until about 1875 was published by E Croydon & G H Croydon until circa 1863 or 1875. Click here to go to Croydon 2. However, the Plan of Teignmouth (Cockrem 4) published precisely during this period is only Published by Edward Croydon. Click here to go to Croydon 4.

Edward, fourth child and eldest son of Edward Senior would appear to have opened his own business in Torquay rather than take over his father's business. He also worked as stationer, bookbinder, librarian, music seller and, like his father, ran a Berlin Repository (1840). His Torquay premises were on Victoria Parade (1840-1866). In 1866 his Berlin Repository was registered at 5 Torwood Street and his Royal Library with printseller, bookseller and stationers activities in Victoria Parade. His Handbook for Torquay appeared in 1854 complete with map and a second edition circa 1860 sometimes included engravings. Click here to go to Croydon 3.

In 1860 A Plan of the Town of Teignmouth was published in folding covers in Teignmouth. Click here to go to Croydon 4. 

 Croydon 1

Size: 400 x 340 mm. Scale of Statute Miles (8 Furlongs + 3 = 100 mm).                                                                                                                                                                     

A MAP OF TEIGNMOUTH and its vicinity Copied from the Ordnance GRAND MAP OF Devon By Special Permission from the Right Honble THE BOARD OF ORDNANCE, Granted to Edwd Croydon, June 1817. (Ec). Imprint: Published by E Croydon, Teignmouth. (CeOS). Signature: Engraved by J. Smith, St Clements Inn, Strand.  (Ec below title). The coast is shown from the Mouth of the Ex (sic) along the coast to Berry Head. Inland the map covers everything east of Little Hempston and Bovey Tracey. The whole has a piano-key style frame.

 

1. 1817            A Guide to the Watering Places, on the Coast, Between the Exe and the Dart; Including Teignmouth, Dawlish, and Torquay, embellished with a general view of Teignmouth and Dawlish, and the various seats around them, with a short description of the neighbourhood

       Teignmouth. E Croydon. 1817 (1818), 1819.       DevA, BL[2]; KB[3].

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[1] This was first published complete in 1818. The work was reissued in 1819 (map) and 1821 (no map). The BL copy 10360.d.10 has title page:  also to be had of Knighton and Westcott, Dawlish, and Cole, Torquay with date below.

[2] BL 10360.d.9 is dated 1817 and lacks the "Trafalgar Cottage" plate; it conforms to R V Tooley’s entry 347.

[3] Previously unrecorded copy; not in Tooley or Abbey. The title page ends: Sold also at Gore's Dawlish, and Gilbert's, Torquay and with date below – 1817 as usual. However, the printed cover is identical except for: Sold also at Knighton's, Dawlish, and Cole's, Torquay. Date below is 1819. The pages are uncut, hence the publishing dates of all the folding aquatints can be seen (not in Tooley).