Tourist Maps of Devon

  Cassell & Co. Ltd 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 w...

Cassell & Co., Ltd   Cassell 5a - 5c   Towards the end of the nineteenth century a number of gazetteer-style works appeared. In 1894 F S Weller's maps appeared in The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales edited by J H F Brabner. This contained the traditional county format maps but also a few town plans (see Weller, F S for a plan of Plymouth etc.). But the days of the county atlas were coming to a close. More and more works were using the sheet-style format where county boundaries were no longer considered. Cary's maps 100 years earlier had utilised this technique (see Cary's New and Improved Maps  but it was not a popular format at that time. In 1898 Cassell's brought out a six volume gazetteer including 60 maps. The atlas had actually been i ssued in parts between 1893-1898.  The volumes contained a place by place description and history of every city, town, village and hamlet in the whole of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the true gazette...

Cassell & Co., Ltd   Cassell 3  & 4 - Railway Guides Although many railway publications and timetables published by the various operators included maps, these were generally larger regional plans showing the complete network or parts thereof. Cassells published both The Official Guide to the Great Western Railway and The Official Guide to the London & South Western Railway . The former guide contained a map very similar to the county map of Devon found in the latter publication ( B&B 165 ) and the latter guide included plans of railway terminii, including Exeter and Plymouth. Paperback (card) cover to 1890 GWR Guide.  With thanks to Gerald Baker Books. [1] These works were almost definitely published annually (although very few are held by any public libraries) and typically published both as hardback (red covers, 2 s ) or as paperback pocket editions (1 s ) in card covers. The paperback GWR edition of 1884, for example, had illustrations of Paddington St...

Cassell & Co., Ltd   Cassell 2a–e   Our Own Country   ... Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial was produced originally in 1882 (two volumes in a five-volume set are dated) and some time later also for subscribers in 6 volumes [1] . Subscriber’s copies seen are undated and have a title page differing from the other editions, with the words SPECIAL EDITION . The map of Exmoor (vol. 2) has a small portion of the coast east of Lynton. Although the volumes are packed with maps and plans, many have no scale and only maps in the fifth volume of the early set had a printer's signature.   Cassell 2a   Size: 135 x 52 mm.                                                               No Scale.   MAP OF THE COURSE OF THE PLYM (CeOS). No signature or imprint. The area covered is from Prince Town (top) to the ...

  Cassell & Co., Ltd   Publishers at La Belle Sauvage Yard, Ludgate Hill, Cassell, Petter & Galpin first venture into publishing maps was when they purchased the plates and stock of the Weekly Dispatch Atlas in 1864 and immediately advertised their atlas. These maps were also issued weekly as loose sheets to the readers of Cassell's Illustrated Family Newspaper . [1] John Cassell (1817-1865) was a supporter of the teetotal movement and is known to have visited the westcountry in 1840/41. [2] He had founded a tea and coffee business before going into publishing but then printed a number of works aimed at the working man such as almanacks, tracts, a temperance monthly and a weekly radical newspaper. He ventured into book publishing in 1850 and in 1851 was advertising guides to the Great Exhibition. Thomas Dixon Galpin (b.1828) and George William Petter ran a printing business with which Cassell worked frequently. In 1855 Cassell ran into financial problems and Petter...