Edward Croydon 2

 

W Read, who engraved this small map for the Teignmouth Guide, was a line and stipple engraver of portraits, landscapes as well as topographical views after his contemporaries[1]. He also produced 4 or more aquatints after T E Chapman for Aquatint Views of Dawlish published by Jane Gore and J Knighton in Dawlish, c. 1828. In addition he executed at least 4 aquatints after L E Reed which was also published by Croydon c. 1825. See S.76.

Size: 175 x 240 mm. Scale of Statute Miles (10 = 58 mm).

A MAP OF TEIGNMOUTH and its vicinity Reduced from the Ordnance GRAND MAP OF DEVON By Special Permission from the Right Honble THE BOARD OF ORDNANCE, Granted to Edwd Croydon. (Ee). Engraver’s signature: Engraved by W Read King St, Covt Garden. (CeOS). Piano-key style frame.

Coast is shown from Beer Head to the Mew Stone south of Berry Head and inland to Gidley and Modbury.


1. 1826 The Teignmouth Guide
Teignmouth. E Croydon. (1826), (1827). DevA, [NDL]; DevA.

The Teignmouth, Dawlish, And Torquay Guide ... by N T Carrington and others
Teignmouth. E Croydon[3]. (1830), (1833). TM; TQ

The Teignmouth, Dawlish, And Torquay Guide ... embellished with a map and lithographic views
Teignmouth. E Croydon. 1830. BL, KB[4].

The Teignmouth Guide
Teignmouth. Edward Croydon (1838). KB.

A Map Of Teignmouth And Its Vicinity ... folding map in six segments in boards
Teignmouth. E Croydon. (1840). DevA.

2. 1841 New title – A MAP OF TORQUAY and its Vicinity Reduced ... . Illustrated.

The Torquay Guide ... By Several Literary Gentlemen Torquay. E Croydon. 1841. BL[6],DevA, [Exm], TM, KB.

3. 1848 Title: A Map of the SOUTH Of DEVON Reduced ... . South Devon Railway added with line to Tor Moham (reached Torquay 1848). Illustrated.

The Torquay Guide ... 3rd edition
Teignmouth. E & G H Croydon. 1848. DevA, TM, KB.

The Teignmouth Guide ... 14th Edition
Teignmouth. Edward Croydon & George Henry Croydon. (1849). [7] KB.

The Teignmouth Guide ... 15th Edition
Teignmouth. E & G H Croydon. 1857. DevA.

The Teignmouth Guide ... 16th Edition
Teignmouth. E & G H Croydon. (1864[8]). DevA, KB.

For more information on Croydon, see my article on Torquay booksellers. Click here.

Croydon 1 - Watering Places - click here.

Croydon 3 - Torquay and its Neighbourhood - click here. 

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[1]  Mackenzie p. 258. See also Somers Cocks JVSC S.92.

[2] According to the last dates in the various texts. These are on p.9, and p.37 respectively.

[3] Both this and the next volume were also sold by C and J Rivington, Baldwin & Co. and also Whittaker and Co. in London, by Gore in Dawlish, Cole and Luscombe in Torquay and by all the Booksellers in Exeter.

[4] KB copy has printed cover and dated spine. BL (10351.aaa.45) has new covers, thus not dated, but is same work.

[5] According to the last date in text on p.12. Title page also gives Simpkin, Marshall & Co in London with Hamilton, Adams and Co as publishers but these were probably only booksellers.

[6] BL (10358.aa.9).

[7] According to the last date in the main text; p.13 is 1838. Two extra sections are added at end. The first of these is The South Devon Railway and reports the railway completed to Plymouth on April, 2^nd 1849.

[8] According to last date in the text; (pp.12 & 51). Note: DevA dates it 1863 and possibly has an edition of 1875.

 Edward Croydon 3

Handbook for Torquay 

The Handbook For Torquay and its Neighbourhood was originally published in 1854 with dated title page. There may have been two variations – with or without map – as many libraries do not mention a map. The book was probably published by Croydon for the visitors to Torquay, but he used Hamilton & Adams for London distribution as he had done for other works and the London printers Bradbury and Evans of Whitefriars. The work was slightly revised 15 years later and reissued. All copies of this “second edition”so far seen have no date on the title page but they do have an advert for Stewart‘s Handbook of the Torquay Flora on the back endpaper: this was published by Croydon in 1860 with Hamilton, Adams and Co., as co-publisher.[1]

The original text was probably written between 1852 and 1853: the first edition mentions a visit by Queen Victoria to Tor Bay in July of the last year, but this is amended in the later text to in July 1852; in a reference to a stream near Chudleigh Rock there is reference to this last Spring (1852); and a reference to temperatures states this present summer (1852). The later edition has been seen in three different versions: one version is text only; a second is with text and map; and the third volume has text, map and six vignette illustrations and a folding view of Torquay from the Pier.[2] 

Size: 500 x 315 mm.    SCALE OF MILES (2 = 90 mm).                   

TORQUAY AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD, PUBLISHED AT CROYDON'S ROYAL LIBRARY AND READING ROOMS; TORQUAY. Taken from the Ordnance Survey. (Ee).

The whole of the coast from Teignmouth as far south as Fishcombe Point at the south end of Tor Bay is shown, together with the western areas as far as Newton Abbot. Railway to Torre only (Station and Tor Moham named but not station name as such).

Revised September 2022

1. 1854    The Handbook For Torquay and its Neighbourhood, with the natural history of the district  

                Torquay: E Croydon. London: Hamilton & Adams. 1854.    KB, Bod, LoC, California (Sutro).

                 The Handbook For Torquay and its Neighbourhood, with the natural history of the district 

                Torquay: E Croydon. London: Hamilton & Adams. (1860). KB, Bod, Lei.[3]

For more information on Croydon, see my article on Torquay booksellers. Click here.

Croydon 1 - Watering Places - click here.

Croydon 2 - The Teignmouth Guide (later also The Torquay Guide) - click here.

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[1] This “second” edition has 287 pages of text and includes the map described above. The 1854 edition had vii + 293 pp.

[2] These seem to be unrecorded by Somers Cocks. All lithographs bear the words Pub(lished) by E Croydon together with some reference to The Library or Royal Library.

[3]  Copies are recorded at Bideford and Totnes but not seen. Tavistock Library also has an 1825 Croydon guide to Tavistock on its catalogue.

 Edward Croydon, Senior and Junior

For more information on Croydon, see my article on Torquay booksellers. Click here.

Edward Croydon and his two sons, Henry George (Teignmouth) and Edward (Torquay) published (at least) four maps.

Croydon 1 - see below.

Croydon 2 - The Teignmouth Guide (later also The Torquay Guide) - click here.

Croydon 3 - Torquay and its Neighbourhood - click here. 

Croydon 4 - A Plan of the Town of Teignmouth -  click here.

In 1817 Edward Croydon printed and sold a most attractive guide books of Devon. The Guide to the Watering Places, on the Coast, Between the Exe and the Dart; … consisted of sixteen (and occasionally found with 17) coloured aquatints (of which four are folding) by D Havell, T Shury, and J C Stadler, after drawings by W B Noble (JVSC S.64). This was originally issued in three parts published in 1817 and 1818 with a map engraved by J Smith of London when bound complete[1]. Although all title pages to the first printing are dated 1817, at least seven of the views included are dated June 15 1818 suggesting the title page was issued with the first instalment and bound in after the series was completed. The text to this work was enlarged and appeared again in 1830 in The Teignmouth, Dawlish, And Torquay Guide suggesting that the original text was also written by N T Carrington (see Croydon 2). Croydon also published The Natural History of the District by W Turton & J F Kingston which lists the different species of flora, fauna and minerals of Devon and is believed to be Part II of Watering Places circa 1820.

William Bonneau Noble (1780-1831) was a landscape painter in water-colours who began life as a teacher of drawing. For some years he was very successful, but although he had two views in the exhibition of 1811 he became dejected and after failing to commit suicide in 1825, he finally died of decline in 1831.

Edward Croydon was printer, bookseller, publisher, stationer, engraver, ran a print and music warehouse as well as managing a circulating library. Throughout his career he was associated with premises at Regent Place in Teignmouth and is listed in many directories from c.1823.

George Henry Croydon also became a printer, working in Teignmouth from his father's address at Regent Place from c.1848. The two Teignmouth Croydons were trading as Edward and George Henry Croydon from about 1848 to 1862. The Teignmouth Guide, which continued to be reissued from 1826 when it was published until about 1875 was published by E Croydon & G H Croydon until circa 1863 or 1875. Click here to go to Croydon 2. However, the Plan of Teignmouth (Cockrem 4) published precisely during this period is only Published by Edward Croydon. Click here to go to Croydon 4.

Edward, fourth child and eldest son of Edward Senior would appear to have opened his own business in Torquay rather than take over his father's business. He also worked as stationer, bookbinder, librarian, music seller and, like his father, ran a Berlin Repository (1840). His Torquay premises were on Victoria Parade (1840-1866). In 1866 his Berlin Repository was registered at 5 Torwood Street and his Royal Library with printseller, bookseller and stationers activities in Victoria Parade. His Handbook for Torquay appeared in 1854 complete with map and a second edition circa 1860 sometimes included engravings. Click here to go to Croydon 3.

 Croydon 1

Size: 400 x 340 mm. Scale of Statute Miles (8 Furlongs + 3 = 100 mm).                                                                                                                                                                     

A MAP OF TEIGNMOUTH and its vicinity Copied from the Ordnance GRAND MAP OF Devon By Special Permission from the Right Honble THE BOARD OF ORDNANCE, Granted to Edwd Croydon, June 1817. (Ec). Imprint: Published by E Croydon, Teignmouth. (CeOS). Signature: Engraved by J. Smith, St Clements Inn, Strand.  (Ec below title). The coast is shown from the Mouth of the Ex (sic) along the coast to Berry Head. Inland the map covers everything east of Little Hempston and Bovey Tracey. The whole has a piano-key style frame.

 

1. 1817            A Guide to the Watering Places, on the Coast, Between the Exe and the Dart; Including Teignmouth, Dawlish, and Torquay, embellished with a general view of Teignmouth and Dawlish, and the various seats around them, with a short description of the neighbourhood

       Teignmouth. E Croydon. 1817 (1818), 1819.       DevA, BL[2]; KB[3].

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[1] This was first published complete in 1818. The work was reissued in 1819 (map) and 1821 (no map). The BL copy 10360.d.10 has title page:  also to be had of Knighton and Westcott, Dawlish, and Cole, Torquay with date below.

[2] BL 10360.d.9 is dated 1817 and lacks the "Trafalgar Cottage" plate; it conforms to R V Tooley’s entry 347.

[3] Previously unrecorded copy; not in Tooley or Abbey. The title page ends: Sold also at Gore's Dawlish, and Gilbert's, Torquay and with date below – 1817 as usual. However, the printed cover is identical except for: Sold also at Knighton's, Dawlish, and Cole's, Torquay. Date below is 1819. The pages are uncut, hence the publishing dates of all the folding aquatints can be seen (not in Tooley).

 Rev. W R B Brownlow

 

In 1886 the Rev. William Robert Bernard Brownlow, Bishop of Clifton, wrote an extensive survey covering Babbacombe and St Marychurch. The book was a result of a talk delivered to the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science and originally published in their transactions. The Rev. Brownlow also reported on a Visitation to St Marychurch 1301, also printed in the society’s Transactions. The Torquay distributor was Andrew Iredale.

At least two of Rev. Brownlow´s sermons were published and / or distributed by both Edward Cockrem and Edward Croydon of Torquay: "A Little Child shall lead them." A few memorials of George Matthew Hoare, contained in notes to a sermon preached in S. John's, Torquay, May 18th, 1862 the Sunday after his funeral  [1862]; and 

 The Church of England and its Defenders. A second letter to Anglican friends .. In reply to the Rev. J. W. Patterson [i.e. to “The Church of England versus the Roman Church in England”], and Rev. J. Walter Moore [i.e. to “Some Critical Remarks,” etc. 1873. 

 Size: 210 x 550 mm. Scale – One Acre of 10 square chains (10 = 30).

 COPY of MANOR MAP of ST MARY CHURCH circa 1775 (Ee) with note: Reduced ½ - and printed by kind permission of R S S Cary Esq of Tor Abbey.

The map shows the coastal areas of Babbacombe with the Bay (Ae) oriented almost horizontal, ie with north facing bottom right. There is a north point with True Meridian (Ca). St Mary Church is shown as well as the areas enclosed by the manor of Coomb-Pafford (sic) with Shiphay and Kingskerswell Parish. 

1.1886      St Marychurch in Saxon and Norman Times

Plymouth. W Brendon & Sons. 1886.                      TQ, KB.
 
Papers on the Subject of St Mary Church in the County of Devon
Plymouth. W Brendon & Sons. 1886-1898.  BL [1].

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[1] This volume has a second additional title page (placed at front) with this title and Compiled by William Bartlett, of Liverpool. It includes not only St Marychurch in Saxon and Norman Times by Brownlow but also the Pedigree of the Family of Bartlett of St. Mary Church co. Devon. BL 09915.aa.3 with accession February 1899.