Tourist Maps of Devon

Brendon & Son 2 Brendon & Son, while being well-known for their publishing of the Plymouth Transactions (given the relationship with the President) also published two maps which appeared in   Eyre Brothers’ Post Office Plymouth and Devonport District Directory . Their first map was originally published c. 1876 and then updated when it appeared in the Third Edition of the directory. The directory changed hands frequently and included other maps. The work became Eyre´s Post Office Plymouth and Devnport District Directory in 1890 but in the  4 th edition of 1888 another Brendon map appeared. Other issues of the directory, which was published by Eyre Brothers themslves from 1880 to 1888 and by others until 1904, included either a map by Maddock , lithographed by John Smith or by  Creber . The map below is very much a sailor´s or mariner´s chart. The soundings throughout the harbour area are set out in a systematic matrix and there is a note concerning high and low...

 Brendon & Son Richard Nicholls  Worth was a professional writer. He was born in 1837 at Devonport and except for a brief period in Newcastle (as editor of the  Northern Daily Express ) he spent all his years in or near Plymouth. As a young man he was apprenticed to R C Smith of the  Devonport and Plymouth Telegraph  and became chief reporter when that paper merged with the  Western Morning News . After a year spent in the north he returned to the  Western Morning News  from 1867 to 1876. [1]  During this period he researched his  History of Devonport  and his  History of Plymouth  which were published in 1870 and 1871 respectively. The timing of the second book was fortuitous as Llewellynn Jewitt ( c.f .) also published a history of Plymouth a year later. Worth’s  History  contains four small maps but all are copies of earlier maps outside of the scope of this present work. [2] Maybe it was the success of th...