Tourist Maps of Devon

  JOHN WALLIS John Wallis was the son of a well-known London map publisher of the same name. John Senior was joined by his son, Edward (who was thus possibly older than John Junior), and the younger John moved to Sidmouth where he worked as a book and print seller at the Royal Marine Library. The first map associated with John Wallis was a small map executed by Neele (c.f.) included in the work A Descriptive Sketch of the Beauties of Sidmouth . Although not dated, it appeared ca. 1810, just a year after Wallis had established his library on the beach. A very attractive work by H Haseler and H Cornish, Scenery on the Southern Coast of Devonshire: Comprising Picturesque Views at or near the Fashionable Watering Places, Sidmouth, Budleigh Salterton, Exmouth, Dawlish, Teignmouth, and Torquay, was published by John Wallis about 1819 and included 30 plates. George Rowe‘s Forty-Eight Views of Cottages and Scenery at Sidmouth, Devon , appeared circa 1826 with 48 lithographs. The map bel...

 Charles Gregory  Charles Gregory , like most aspiring authors, underestimated how long it would take him to complete his guide to Brixham. In his Preface he writes: I have to make apologies for the delay in producing the book. I fully hoped to see it finished by the middle of March, but I found it impossible to do this, as the book now contains more than twice the number of pages that I had originally prepared for the Press . This apology was extremely important as Gregory had partly financed the publication by getting advance orders so purchasers were eagerly awaiting their copies. Additionally, he had to explain to his sponsors that the book would cost double what he had originally expected. Little is known about Gregory but much of the guide is devoted to fishermen and fishing, much to be expected in a guide about one of Britain’s most important fishing towns (at the present time, too). It would be intriguing to know whether Gregory was the W Charles Gregory who advert...

  Mardon, Son and Hall   In 1884 Mardon, Son and Hall   of the Caxton Works   in Bristol published a delightful guide book to Torquay written by Joye C Kerr . This thin guide book was produced using the newly popular chromolithograph technique. This style, popular on the continent had been used by British publishers to produce postcards but was not used extensively in guide book production. Kerr’s volume contained 14 full colour chromolithograph pages as well as including adverts on both inside covers for Shapley & Austin’s Co-operative Stores at 2, Strand in bright colour (illustrated below). This guide book was especially written and many of the local suppliers are mentioned in the text which includes a potted history as well as suggestions for day’s outings. Two maps were also included, one was a plan of Torquay previously published by Westley in his own guides to Torquay (see Westley 2) – a map produced by Stanford’s in London. The second, smaller map w...

  John Heywood   John Heywood is well known for a long-running series of cheap atlases that he published during the second half of the nineteenth century. Some time between 1852 and 1858 John Heywood took over the copper plates , or more likely the lithographic stones, to a series of county maps originally used by Henry Teesdale   ( B&B 99 ) and subsequently reissued by Henry George   Collins and William S Orr   between 1830 and 1850. Heywood made further lithograph copies of these maps and issued the set as his Travelling Atlas of England & Wales. These were typically on sale as paperback atlases for the price of 1/-. The stones were used by Heywood until c .1882 with continual updating. Shortly after the plates were retired after 50 years of service, John Heywood began to publish a series of paperback Illustrated Guides . The first guide seems to have appeared in 1886 with a guide to Llandudno with Heywood’s native Manchester not appearing until...

  Cockrem 7   Please note: New  Cockrem 7   Cockrem´s Guide Book to Torquay  – Map 2   Was previously Westley 2 The first edition of  Cockrem's Tourist's Guide to Torquay  appeared in 1856 [1]  but did not contain any map. There appear to be two editions of this: an illustrated version with up to 14 views by Rock & Co. (240pp.); and a cheaper verion with illustrations but lacking sections such as geology, climate etc. (163 pp.). There was no map included which is surprising, given that Cockrem had already published three good maps (Cockrem 3, 4 and 5) which could have been exploited. A revised edition was published circa 1865. [2]  This edition included two new maps, both supplied by Stanford in London (see next entry). The guide now had 208 pages and just one frontispiece illustration. Reprinting took place in circa 1870 (last date in text p. 20 with Belgrave Congregational Church) and circa 1875 (p. 13 to do with the Petty Sessions...