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  Edward Nettleton   Edward Nettleton was a bookseller, printer and publisher in Whimple Street, Plymouth. Besides publishing an early edition of Henry Woolcombe´s famous guide, The Tourist's Companion to the most interesting objects … of   Plymouth,Devonport and Stonehouse .... in 1828, i n 1836 he   printed and published a guide to Plymouth etc. written especially for him by George Wightwick , an architect. Nettleton's Guide to Plymouth, Stonehouse, Devonport and to the Neighbouring Country   contained three maps as well as other engravings and plans. Two of the three maps were very close copies of those that had already appeared in previous works, The Tourist's Companion ; Being a Guide to Devonport, Stoke, Morice-Town Stonehouse, and Plymouth, by John Sandford; and from A View Of Plymouth-Dock, Plymouth and the adjacent country published by A Granville & Son in 1812. Nettleton flourished certainly between 1801 ( Zion’s Pilgrim ) and 1847 ( Trout Flies of Devon