FRANCIS WELLER

Francis Sidney Weller was the son of Edward Weller who engraved Exeter and Plymouth maps for Murray and a set of maps for the Weekly Dispatch. Francis seems to have inherited his father’s interest in geography and in 1894 an atlas-gazetteer work appeared with his signature on the maps; this was Mackenzie's Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales. The county maps which were included have either the county name or "Plan of ..." and there were 14 city plans including one of Plymouth, Stonehouse and Devonport. The maps, 39 English county maps and 10 Welsh counties, were produced between 1893 and 1895[1] and include large areas of adjoining counties. Most have a key to railways, roads and canals. There is overprinted colour to identify Parliamentary divisions. The text refers to the census returns 1881 and agricultural figures for 1893.

Size: 225 x 280 mm. Scale of one half mile (4 furlongs = 38 mm).

PLYMOUTH, STONEHOUSE AND DEVONPORT. (Ee) with scale below. No signature or imprint.[2] Plain 3 line border with sea, buildings and parks coloured. Covers the area from Mt Edgecumbe to Oreston and inland to Weston Mill Lake, Victoria Park shown as ‘Proposed Recreation Grounds’.

1. 1894 The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales. Edited by J H F Brabner, FRGS
London, Edinburgh and Dublin. William Mackenzie. (1894). KB.

 RETURN to Catalogue of Maps 

NOTES:

[1] Smith 1985 (p. 145) mentions that variants are known in other publications as early as 1884(!) and as late as 1906 exhibiting appropriate changes such as the marking of the pre-1885 Parliamentary divisions and the revision of railway information. No earlier copy of Devon has so far been discovered.

[2] County maps have signature: F S Weller F R G S and an imprint: WILLIAM MACKENZIE, LONDON, EDINBURGH & GLASGOW. Plans have neither.


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