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