7.       Richard Izacke                                                                                                        1677

 

Richard Izacke was appointed Chamberlain of Exeter in 1653, like Hooker before him. His main work, Antiquities Of The City Of Exeter with a history of Exeter and a list of its most important official representatives was Collected by Richard Izacke, Esquire Chamberlain thereof and published in London by Richard Marriott with the Imprimatur of G Jane and dated October 20, 1676, although it wasn’t issued until 1677. Both this first edition^[1], and the second edition^[2] which appeared in 1681, contained a map of Exeter copied fairly closely from Speed’s (inset) map of 1610. Although very similar to Speed’s, with the same references (1 to 50 on map; only 1 to 48 in table Figures of Reference), it is somewhat wider and shows further buildings both east and west. As on Speed’s map item 32, St. Georges Church, is incorrectly labelled as St. Gregories.

Who drew and engraved the map is not known. The work was reissued in an extended and revised version, by the then Chamberlain, Samuel Izacke, in 1724, complete with a new map (see Sutton Nicholls). 

Title: A MAPP OF the CITY of EXETER

Size: 160 x 193 mm with no scale or signature. 

Map from the Antiquities of the City of Exeter.… 1677. Almost a direct copy of Speed’s 1610 map complete with numbered references it covers slightly more land, but without the detail of Hogenberg.

Considering the fact that Izacke was a local personage the map is, in many respects, disappointing. The Haven is shown with a false island, and there is a wind mill in mistake for the crane at the quayside. In nearly seventy years since Speed's plan there has been no development.

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^[1] Printed by E Tyler and R Holt for Richard Marriott.

^[2] Printed for Rowland Reynolds, next to the Middle Exchange, in the Strand, 1681.

 37.     Featherstone & Co. I                                                            1852

 

The Featherstone company of lithographers and printers produced two maps of Exeter in the 1850s (see also 40). William Charleton Featherstone was born circa 1794-95 in Plymouth and died 3rd February 1858 in Exeter. He married Jane and they had one son, Samuel, but it was Jane who registered William’s death and it was probably she who announced the sale of her late husband’s business to John Pollard in the Exeter Flying Post of 18th March of the same year. William worked from a large number of addresses and he is listed at 67 Fore Street in Pigot’s 1822 directory and under the Weekly Times Office 1828. As early as 1825 he printed a broadsheet on the proposed railway to Exeter (printer to J Godfrey). Between September 1832 and April 1833 18 issues of The Western Spy were published: the first two under Featherstone, the others by W C Pollard. He also published the Western Times for a while but severed connection with the paper to start up Featherstone’s Exeter Times in 1836 which was not successful and ran for only four months. 

Title: MAP OF THE CITY OF EXETER, EMBRACING ALL THE Alterations and Improvements to the Present Period.

Size: 445 x 590 mm with scale Chains 22 = 73 mm.

Imprint: DRAWN, PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY FEATHERSTONE & Co. Lithographers and Printers. 246, High Street, Exeter. 

A panel on both sides shows the ‘Street List’. There is a scale bar and the City Arms. There is a note on population: Population 1851, City of Exeter, 32,818 but including St. Thomas &c. 38,886. Three panels at the bottom list the parishes, the churches and public buildings. One interesting feature is the ‘cross’ shape to the City Prison which reappears on later maps: Warren correctly showed the prison as a shallow ‘H’ shaped building.

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