48. John Murray II 1879
So popular were John Murray’s red-bound books that the company separated Devon & Cornwall in the 9th edition of 1879 and introduced a new, and considerably improved, map for Exeter (replaces 41) for the Devonshire handbook. The plan was used in the Tenth (above) and Eleventh Editions of Murray’s A Handbook for Travellers in Devonshire until 1901.
Title: EXETER for
Murray’s Handbook for Devon
Size:
160 x 190 mm but no scale.
Signature: Edwd Weller (engraver) and publisher’s imprint: London: John Murray Albemarle St.
The plan covers the area from
St. Thomas to Polsloe Park and from the Canal Basin to Exwick. It is the first
map to have a grid system to aid finding locations.
Although rather a small map it is accurate and detailed and would have been a
useful aid to the traveller.
Revised copies of the plan were
used in the later 10th edition of 1887 (with only minor amendments –
List of 14 buildings and Bridewell (at B3) becomes Governors and Chaplains
houses). The 11th edition (below) of 1895 has roads added and named, especially in
quadrants A5-6 and E5; a tunnel under the Tiverton Road for S. W. Railway
(A7); and the area northwest of the Workhouse and west of Diocesan Trinity
College is extensively developed
(C-D6).
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