Tourist Maps of Devon

John Roberts Chanter - Barnstaple John Chanter's (1816-1895) first work containing a map was published in 1865; the map being a plan of the town of Barnstaple. Sketches of Some Striking Incidents in the History of Barnstaple was printed and sold by E J Arnold of High Street, Barnstaple and was a summarised history of the chief events of the town. This was the substance of a lecture that Chanter had given to the Literary & Scientific Institution of Barnstaple in March 1865. In 1866 Chanter compiled his Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple which again was printed and sold locally by E J Arnold. This was the bringing together of various Papers that Chanter had read at the Literary Institution. The Striking Incidents is a rather dry affair but has an interesting account of the Danes´ involvement in the founding of Barnstaple. The Plan of Barnstaple described below is drawn with the intention of showing the limits of the castle and Castle Green, much owing to the origin...

  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...