Tourist Maps of Devon

  John Murray -   Handbook for Travellers The following Murray maps can be found in the following editions:   1. 1895     A Handbook for Travellers in Devon    ... Eleventh Edition revised                London. John Murray. 1895, 1895 (1896).  KB; TM.                                 A Handbook for Travellers in Devon   ... Eleventh Edition revised                London. Edward Stanford. 1895 (1901) [1] .  KB. Murray 7 - Plymouth and Dartmouth  Size: 155 x 440 mm. Scale: (4 = 50 mm) Miles .   PLYMOUTH AND DARTMOUTH . (CaOS). Imprint: London. John Murray, Albemarle Street . (CeOS). Signature: J Barth...

  James Fairweather   One of only two popular guide books on Salcombe to be written in the nineteenth century was Salcombe and Neighbourhood, a Descriptive and Historical Guide. This was written by the local printer and publisher, James Fairweather , who also commissioned a map by Maddock to accompany the first edition of the guide. The Preface makes it clear that much of the text had already appeared in the Salcombe Times , this was a newspaper published each Friday at the cost of one penny per issue and which included local and general news and a serial tale . Some of the text from this work was reworked and issued as a shorter guide, Salcombe as a Health and Pleasure Resort   (but with no map) about 1890 [1] . The original work was revised and republished as Salcombe, Kingsbridge and Neighbourhood   in a second edition in c .1896 with a new map (see Fairweather - Stanford - below). Besides one further work on the great blizzard   of 1891, Fairweather does...