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 c.1890. A vast number o