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...