Tourist Maps of Devon

  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...

John Cary -   A H Swiss   Gall & Inglis   were successful publishers who had bought part of the stock of George Frederick Cruchley   when it came up for auction in 1877 . Some of the plates sold included those of John Cary that Cruchley had acquired over thirty years previously. These were again revised and issued in cooperation with local companies such as A H Swiss   of Devonport. These were fox‑hunting maps of Devon produced c. 1890 , and are transfers from the plates of the Improved Map of England of Wales with added railways and hunt information. Three maps by Swiss covering Devon are known. Two maps covering basically north Devon and south Devon on two sheets are described in The Victorian Maps of Devon (entry B&B 166 ). It was thought that there was a map on one sheet; Swiss & Co.s No. 1 Map . Such a map has now been found and added to the original entry. However, another map also No. 1 covers only parts of sheets 2 and 9 of Cary's Imp...