Tourist Maps of Devon

  John Bartholomew – The Imperial Map   Among the earliest of major cartographic works of John Bartholomew   II (1831-1893) was his engraving of the Imperial Map of England & Wales ,   published in 1868. Although originally printed on 16 sheets covering England and Wales from north to south [1] it was not long before both county and regional maps were being prepared from the plates. Archibald Fullarton was the publisher of the Imperial Map and it was issued both in book format and as separate sheets (from which it would be possible to form a wall map). Shortly after the Imperial Map first appeared both W H Smith and A & C Black were offering copies of the same sheets under their own imprints. Black’s offered a New Large Map of England & Wales   in 16 sheet. About 1890 W H Smith offered the Cyclist’s Road Map of England & Wales in 16 sheets from the Ordnance Survey. In addition Houlston and Wright , later Houlston & Sons , were offering...

 John Bartholomew –    for W H Smith – SOUTH DEVON I Bartholomew was providing W H Smith and Son with maps from circa 1874, two of the earliest Imperial Map sections being sold as North Devon and South Devon quite soon after the publication of the Imperial Map . However, John Bartholomew was known to be experimenting with hill shading in the 1880s and the Bartholomew records show various printings of the map below in the years 1884-1887 (probably referring to the first one below). Two maps have been found, both executed by the Bartholomew company and both sold in W H Smith covers, and displaying attempts at portraying heights. The first used a very harsh hachuring to achieve hill shading, but the later version uses a very subtle brown tone to give the impression of height (c.f. next entry ). These seem to be the precursors for Bartholomews Reduced Ordnance Survey Maps published in 1895/1896. W H Smith advertised maps of both North Devon and South Devon ...

John Bartholomew 7 –   for Abel Heywood   Abel Heywood's   series of Penny Guide Books   included transfers from the Imperial Map . A map covering most of North Devon can be found in A Guide to Ilfracombe and Clovelly published by Abel Heywood and Son in Manchester in 1900 (compare to Imperial Map 4 ). Heywood, a bookseller and publisher of radical literature began his series of penny guides in 1866 with Buxton and Kent appearing in 1872. Abel Heywood was born in Prestwich, near Manchester, in 1810. [1] His family were poor, moreso after the father's death when Heywood was only five. As a result Abel received little formal education, and at the comparatively young age of 9, he became an apprentice to Thomas Worthington   who owned a warehouse in High Street in Manchester. We know that Heywood attended the Bennett Street Sunday School, and later the Mechanics' Institute of which he was one of the first members. Despite his own limited access to education he...

 John Bartholomew  6  – ROYAL ATLAS   As well as taking transfers from the Imperial Map to provide sectional maps for guide books as illustrated, from March 1899 to May 1900 Bartholomew also used transfers to produce a new set of regional maps. These were published in 20 parts to produce The Royal Atlas of England and Wales   (edited by J Bartholomew and published by George Newnes   Limited ). South Devon was sheet XXXI with North Devon on sheets XXV and XXVI. Also included in the Atlas was a second overview map of England and Wales on six sheets with a map of the West Country (Plate 12). Transfers from this map [1] were used to produce a cyclist’s map specially prepared for the Pattisons whisky company . Around the county map there are vignette scenes from the Pattisons` distillery and two of their products. The reverse is titled Pattisons` Scotch Whisky is invaluable to all Travellers & Sportsmen Abroad or at home who go in for Cycling - Golfing...

 John Bartholomew 8 -  for Charles Pearson   Charles Arthur   Pearson produced a number of Gossipy Guides   at the beginning of the 20th century. Styled along the lines of the Ward and Lock series of guides they were full of photographic material in a handy pocket size. The two guides relating to Devon were the Guide to Ilfracombe and District (cover title; number 4 in the series)   and Guide to South Devon (number 8 in the series).   Both British Library volumes have accession dates of 1901. It is interesting that Pearson took maps from different sources to include in his two Devon guides. The map of South Devon included in the South Devon Guide was a transfer of Bartholomew’s map: however, the map of North Devon is taken from the plates prepared by Ravenstein for George Philip & Son   in 1899. The scale reveals that this is a Philip’s map (see Pearson 1 ) .   Bartholomew Imperial Map 8 (Pearson)   Size: 257 x 385 mm. ...

John Bartholomew 5 -  Hiorns & Miller   Bartholomew Imperial Map 5 (Hiorns & Miller) The company of Hiorns and Miller would appear to have specialised in Naval and Military matters. Certainly the title to their hunting map makes this clear: Published By Hiorns & Miller   Navy & Army Printers & Stationers. [1] The firm were listed in Kelly’s Directories in 1910, at 107 Fore St & Granby St Devonport as 'printers and stationers’ and in 1939, as Hiorns and Miller (Successors), Statnrs, still at 107 Fore St Devonport. One illustration is listed, that of Meavy Church, in Hiorns and Miller's Series 42282, circa 1908. The publisher of Elizabeth Brabazon´s   Exmouth and its environs   was N L Hiorns   in 1866 and may have been a relative.   Size: 405 x 360 mm.                                   Scale 2 Miles to an Inch ...

 John Bartholomew 4 -  for Milligan   The Rev. Tugwell´s North Devon Handbook was written and published by John Banfield c.1855 and four editions are known to c.1877. A large number of shorter guides with text extracted from Tugwell’s work were also issued, often as Banfield’s Shilling Guide . Banfield must have ceased trading c .1872 and his businees was taken over by Stewart who  in turn handed the business over to Milligan.     Milligan took over 9 High Street , Ilfracombe, c .1879 and continued to offer the services previously provided by Banfield and Stewart. He obviously took over The Library, Ilfracombe, from Stewart and continued selling anything to do with paper. In his guide of c .1879 he was advertising the Library ( established 1823 and now boasting 9000 volumes), Ilfracombe Steam Printing (est. 1820) and he was selling the Ilfracombe Gazette  (est. 1854) from his premises. As Banfield and Stewart before him, he was not amiss to lookin...