50.     Cassell & Co. Ltd I                                                                     1882 

Our Own Country ... Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial was produced originally in 1882 (two volumes in a five-volume set are dated) and sometime later also for subscribers in 6 volumes. There were five maps in total covering Devon, each set in a page of text in the various volumes. The maps are: Map of the Course of the Plym, Map of North Devon, Map of South Devon, Old Plan of Exeter (a small copy of Braun & Hogenberg) and Map of Exeter. Although the volumes are packed with maps and plans, many have no scale and only maps in the fifth volume of the early set had a printer’s signature. All maps are very small with little detail.

Cassells also published J R Chanter´s Lundy Island complete with a map of the island possibly executed by Chanter himself and a further map of Exeter was published in their guide to the L&SWR in 1888 (57). 

Title: MAP OF EXETER.

Size: 85 x 134 mm with no scale, no signature or imprint. 

The area covered is from Hermitage to Heavitree and only shows the roads and the railways. This appears in Volume 2, p.161 of Our Own Country ... Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial published in London, Paris & Melbourne by Cassell & Co., Ltd in 1882 with reissue in 1898.

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 57.     Cassell & Co. Ltd  II                                                                  1888 

Amongst many railway publications and timetables published by the various operators a few were issued with maps. From 1888 Cassell & Co. published The Official Guide to the London & South Western Railway. This guide contained a number of maps (including a county map of Devon; B&B 165) and plans of railway stations, including Exeter and Plymouth. 

Title: PLAN OF EXETER

Size: 130 x 200 mm. No Scale.

Imprints: London and South Western Railway Official Guide and Cassell & Company, Limited, London. 

The plan can be found in The Official Guide to the London & South Western Railway published in London by Cassell & Co., Ltd. First issued in 1888 it was most probably published annually but only reissues of 1889 and 1891 are known.

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