Tourist Maps of Devon

  Besley 4   Size: 220 x 360 mm.                                                                         SCALE OF YARDS (1500 = 78 mm).   PLYMOUTH, DEVONPORT AND STONEHOUSE (Ed). Imprint: Printed & Published by Henry Besley, Directory Office, South Street, Exeter.   (CeOS). Signature: Engraved by BECKER'S Patent Process on Steel, 11 Stationers' Court, London. (EeOS). The railway is shown as solid line to Plymouth.   1. 1852 Hand Book of   Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse   Extracted from the Route Book Exeter. H Besley. (1852 [1] ).       KB.     The Ro...

 George Washington Bacon 2 Bacon 2   A plan of Plymouth with Stonehouse and Devonport was included in the early editions of Bacon’s New Large Scale Ordnance Atlas along with a number of other city plans. The atlas appeared almost each year from circa 1884 to 1893. From about 1895 Bacon issued his atlas as the Commercial and Library Atlas of the British Isles   (cover title was Bacon’s Popular Atlas ) with the county maps (see B&B 134) and omitted the city plans. In 1900-1901 John Bartholomew issued his Royal Atlas . This included a map of Plymouth & Devonport and the similarity to the Bacon map is startling (see Bartholomew Royal Atlas maps 6d). Although there are numerous other town plans in both atlases, no other pair of maps bears such a resemblance. Another map which bears close resemblance but is clearly from a different drawer and engraver is Weller’s plan for The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales   (see F S Weller in Victorian Maps of ...

William  Henry Maddock William Henry Maddock was a printer, engraver and lithographer in Plymouth and appears to have been active from circa 1848 to the mid-1880s. His only known publishing venture would seem to be the map below, dated 1848, and there may have been a reprint in 1853 (see Brockett). Although there is no address on the map below, Maddock was at 32 Frankfort Street 1852-56 but in 1890 the address was 86 Treville Street. He seems to have been a specialist lithographer and as well as printing the three maps listed below also printed two for  John Heydon  of the same area; he also lithographed a map of Exeter for Jewitt - a Plan Of The City Of Exeter appeared in a guide book to the Agricultural Exhibition in Exeter in 1850 (published by H. J. Wallis, Exeter, and R. Lidstone, Plymouth) and which bears the signature of Maddock & Balderston Lithographers, 17, Bedford St Plymouth ; and a Map Of Salcombe, Kingsbridge, And Surroundings for James Fairweather ...