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, 3rd 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].

[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).

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