RUNDELL / THOMAS 

The first edition of the plan described below is linen backed and bound into a small booklet, the outer cover having the title: 1848 BYE LAWS AND TABLES OF FARES FOR BOATS AND WHERRIES, Plying under 6 and 7 Vict., chap 61. Price 6d. Jenkin Thomas, Printer, Plymouth and which explains the terms and conditions, fares, fines and regulations thereof. The last page of the booklet ends: JENKIN THOMAS, PRINTER, PLYMOUTH - 1861. The booklet was "Printed by Authority of the Commissioners, By JENKIN THOMAS, No. 9, Cornwall Street, Plymouth. (ENTERED AT STATIONERS’ HALL) 1848." Pagination begins i-vi (and includes an index) and continues (7) to 18 (the bye-laws).

William Rundell engraved the map and he was registered in Devonport in the period 1840-1844, at 73 George Street. It is possible that the map was engraved in 1848 for Thomas and then reissued but the reference to the Commissioners makes it more probable that the plan was first printed in 1861. Rundell executed two maps for Wood (c.f.) in this period and it was William Wood who used the map later in his Almanacks.

Jenkin Thomas was also the local publisher of J C Bellamy’s The Natural History of South Devon which was published together with Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. of London in 1839. 

 

Size: 390 x 285 mm.  SCALE OF STATUTE MILES (49 mm = 2) Miles. 

No Title: Imprint (Ce): Engraved & Published BY AUTHORITY OF THE COMMISSIONERS acting under 6 & 7 Vic. Cap. 61. For regulating Hackney Coaches & other Carriages, BOATS & WHERRIES. Signature: W W Rundell Sc (Ae).

Shows the Sound from Rame Head to Wembury Church and inland to St.Germans, Long Bridge (up the Laira), Lop Hill on the Tavy and Weir Head on the Tamar. A coastal plan with no inland detail at all.  The sound is divided into areas: No.1. from the Mewstone to Kingsand Cawsand, No. 2 to the Breakwater  up to No. 22 from Kinterbury Pt. to Saltash and Anthony’s Passage. There are three tables of Fares: Ferries and Short Distances (Aa); General Fares (Ea); and Steam Packet Fares (Ad). 

1. 1861   1848 Bye Laws and Tables of Fares for Boats and Wherries 
Plymouth. Printed by Authority of the Commissioners. 1861.  KB. 
 
2. 1864   Addition of two dotted lines at higher reaches of River Tamar, e.g. Halton Quay.[1]
                       
              Three Towns' Almanack 1864
              Devonport. W  Wood. 1864.  DevA.
 
3. 1872   Rundell signature deleted and signs of possible erasure of a ferry route at Cargreen[2].
                       
              Three Towns' Almanack 1872
               Devonport. W  Wood. 1872.  DevA, KB.


NOTES:

[1] Has various adverts on the reverse, eg Plimsaul and Western Mutual Insurance.

[2] Has an advert on the reverse for J G Foster.

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