Tourist Maps of Devon

   WARD & LOCK  Ward & Lock 10 - Plan of Exeter Size: 140 x 190 mm. Scale of 1/4 Mile (1/4 = 31 mm). PLAN OF EXETER (Ee). Imprint: WARD, LOCK & Co LTD, WARWICK HOUSE, SALISBURY SQ, LONDON (CeOS). Signature: George Philip & Son, London & Liverpool. (EeOS). 1. 1898  A New Pictorial and Descriptive Guide To Exeter London, New York, and Melbourne. Ward, Lock and Co., Ltd. (1898). BL, DevA. A New Pictorial and Descriptive Guide To Teignmouth London, New York, and Melbourne. Ward, Lock and Co., Ltd. (1898). BL. A New Pictorial and Descriptive Guide To Exmouth London, New York, and Melbourne. Ward, Lock and Co., Ltd. (1898). BL. A New Pictorial and Descriptive Guide To Dawlish London, New York, and Melbourne. Ward, Lock and Co., Ltd. (1898). BL.

   WARD & LOCK  Ward & Lock 6 - Exeter Size:140 x 200 mm. Scale of ¼ Mile (40 mm). EXETER (Ee). Signature: G. Philip & Son, Fleet Street. (EeOS). 1. 1887  Ward And Lock's Pictorial and Historical Guide To North Devon London. Ward Lock & Co. (1887). KB. Ward And Lock's Pictorial and Historical Guide To South Devon London. Ward Lock & Co. (1888 [1] ). DevA, KB.          RETURN  to  Catalogue of Maps  RETURN  to  List of Ward & Lock Maps [1]  Advert section is dated 1888.  

  ALFRED VINCENT The following map can be found in a guide published by Alfred Vincent, a local printer and publisher: Vincent’s Guide to Exeter. Alfred Vincent published this guide in 1884 but by 1889 Mrs Alfred Vincent was carrying on the business as lithographic printer at 1 Maddocks Row and was still in business at the same address in 1893. Size: 192 x 252 mm. No scale. GROUND PLAN OF EXETER. (CeOS). Signature: A. Vincent, Exeter Lith. (EeOS). Plain single line border with the title below. Simple, crude, street plan with important buildings drawn and titled from Exwick and St Thomas (but no buildings here) to Newtown in the east. 1. 1884                Vincent’s Guide To Exeter.....                                    Exeter. Alfred Vincent. (1884). DevA. RETURN  to  Catalogue of Maps 

 WILLIAM POLLARD   Thomas Pollard  is believed to have first started business as a printer in Exeter in 1791. Details are sparse, but he was probably using letterpress to print stationery, account books, and advertising pamphlets. In the early 1800s William Carss Pollard  is known to have continued the family’s printing trade from a factory in 39/40 North Street, Exeter and like most printers at the start of the Victorian provided whatever their clients requested – from advertising posters to timetables and letterbooks. During the Victorian era and into the early 20th century the business grew substantially under the leadership of William Pollard (son of William Carss) and then his son, Herbert Pollard . They outgrew the premises on North Street and in 1919 opened an impressive new factory at Bampfylde Street. The depression of the 1930s was very tough and during the Second World War trading virtually ceased. On the 4th of May 1942 the factory was completely destroyed in the Exeter

John Murray -   Handbook for Travellers Murray 5 and 6 - Exeter and Dartmoor (North) and Torquay and Dartmoor (South) Both the following Murray maps can be found in the following editions:   1. 1895      A Handbook for Travellers in Devon    ... Eleventh Edition revised                  London. John Murray. 1895, 1895 (1896).     KB ; TM .                   A Handbook for Travellers in Devon   ... Eleventh Edition revised                London. Edward Stanford. 1895 (1901) [1] .       KB . Murray 5 -  Exeter and Dartmoor (North)    Size : 155 x 470 mm.  Scale: (4 = 50 mm) Miles .   EXETER AND DARTMOOR (NORTH) . (CaOS). Imprint: London. John Murray, Albemarle Street. (CeOS). Signature: J Bartholomew Edinr (EeOS). Scale  (Ee). Description: Area from Lydford to Budleigh Salterton (in border); Dawlish to Exeter. Layer colouring with height table (Ea-Ec): section is taken from Bartholomew's 1895 map of South Devon. Murray 6 -  Torquay and Dartmoor (South)   Size : 15

  John Murray -   Handbook for Travellers Murray 3 - Exeter 2 Size : 160 x 190 mm. No scale. EXETER For Murray's Handbook (Aa). Imprint: London. John Murray, Albemarle Street. (CeOS). Signature: Edwd Weller (EeOS). Description: Area from St Thomas (southwest) to Exwick (northwest), with Polsloe Park and Female Reformatory in east. List of (12) buildings within map (Ad). Map is gridded, A to F and 1-7. 1. 1879 A Handbook for Travellers in Devonshire ... Ninth Edition revised London. John Murray. 1879, 1879 (1882). DevA [1] ; KB . 2. 1887 List of (14) buildings. Bridewell (B3) becomes Governors and Chaplains houses.  A Handbook for Travellers in Devonshire... Tenth Edition revised London. John Murray. 1887, 1887 (1892).

 John Murray - Handbook for Travellers John Murray's   Handbook for Travellers in Devon and Cornwall   was first published in 1850, but the early editions only contained county maps ( B&B 116 and 135 ). In 1863, with the appearance of the fifth edition, a map of Exeter was included for the first time although this was replaced by a map by Edward Weller   for the ninth edition. Although a plan of Plymouth appeared in 1872 (8 th edition), this too was replaced very quickly, and by 1879 (9 th ) a new map was included. In 1895, the eleventh and final edition of the Handbook was published. This had a large number of new maps produced by John Bartholomew   & Co. Dating the individual Murray editions is not as simple as it seems. Although all issues have a date on the title page, this can sometimes be misleading. John Lister, in his very good listing of the Murray guides, has used the publisher’s date as given on the title page and has noted that there are no extant examples

Dulau - Thorough Guide Series  Dulau (North and South) 1   The following two maps appeared in both north and south guides. The only revisions to map detail were undertaken c .1889. Size: 150 x 205 mm. Scale of 1/4 Mile (40 mm). EXETER (Ee). Signature: J Bartholomew Edinr. Scale (Ee). References to Tramway Routes. No shading and no graticule. Illustrated. 1. 1884  Thorough Guide ... North Devon And North Cornwall Second Edition, Revised London. Dulau & Co. 1884. Thorough Guide Series: No. VII ... South Devon And South Cornwall. London. Dulau & Co. 1884. Thorough Guide ... North Devon And North Cornwall Third Edition, Revised London. Dulau & Co. 1885, 1885 (1886). Thorough Guide ... North Devon And North Cornwall Fourth Edition, Revised London. Dulau & Co. 1888.

Llewellynn Jewitt   Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt (1816-1886) was a prolific writer of topographical works as well as being an expert on coins and ceramics in the collections of stately homes. He wrote biographies (e.g. of Josiah Wedgwood), edited magazines (e.g. The Reliquary ) and guides to other counties, including Derbyshire for A & C Black. In 1850 he wrote a guide to Exeter for the Royal Agricultural Society of England which was published to coincide with the big agricultural show held there from Thursday 11th July to Friday 19th July, 1850. This was Jewitt’s fifth guide to the annual shows [1] . Two further works, both on Plymouth, by Jewitt contained maps: The Illustrated Handbook appeared in 1865 (see below); and Jewitt’s own History of Plymouth of 1873, initially started to supplement the notes left by Edward Nettleton on his death, contained two facsimiles of earlier maps of Plymouth by Hollar and Lysons (c.f.). Jewitt also produced a plan of Exeter Cathedral whi

  Featherstone & Co.   William Charleton Featherstone was born circa 1794-95 in Plymouth and died 3rd February 1858 in Exeter. He married Jane (born 1808) from Stepney in Middlesex and they had one son, Samuel. It was Jane who registered William’s death and it was probably she who announced the sale of her late husband’s business to John Pollard in the Exeter Flying Post of 18th March of the same year. William worked from a large number of addresses and William is listed at 67 Fore Street in Pigot’s 1822 directory. Between September 1832 and April 1833 18 issues of The Western Spy were published but only the first two under Featherstone; the others were published by W C Pollard. He also published the Western Times for a while but severed connection with the paper to start up Featherstone’s Exeter Times in 1836 which was not successful and ran for only four months. Featherstone seems to have published very little in his career. However, he did print and sell D McNee Stirling‘s

  The Guide Book   Scroll down for chapters on: Devon Guide Books Centres of Production - London Centres of Production - Edinburgh Centres of Production - Plymouth Centres of Production - The “Library” at Ilfracombe Centres of Production - Exeter Centres of Production - Teignmouth and Torquay Introduction One of the interesting developments of the Victorian age was that of the guide book. From earliest times some people had travelled, and travelled widely. There are numerous accounts of early travellers who journeyed long distances. Whether it was Julius Caesar in search of conquest, Arab treasure hunters seeking archaeological sites, merchant venturers such as Marco Polo in search of new trade routes or trading partners or people like John Bill , commissioned by Sir Thomas Bodley   to travel to the Frankfurt Book Fair   in order to buy the latest bestseller anno 1600, few either had maps or left maps behind or had the use of a travel guide in the modern sense. Perhaps the earliest