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27. Map of Plymouth also showing cross-section of the Breakwater

27.1. Title: Cooke’s Guide To Plymouth Sound And Breakwater. 
Date: 1819 [1821].
Size: 150 x 140 mm inside border (185 mm total).
Imprint(s): Pubd for & sold by Mrs E Nile, 48, Union Street, Stonehouse, Aug 12, 1819.
Signature(s): Engd by John Cooke.
Location(s): NLS, KB.[1]
 

Comments: A much simplified plan of the three towns but still similar in some ways to the chart of 1817 with a plan of the breakwater below it. Although dated 1819 the first examples seen were included in a later work. Two copies found in editions of Interesting Particulars, relative to that Great National Undertaking, the Breakwater, Plymouth Dock; J Johns: Stonehouse; John Cooke. (1821). Note: some copies of this work have a different map, Borough of Plymouth (see 25 above).

Below the bottom border is a Transverse section of the Breakwater and note on first stone being laid in 1812 and two further lines of text referring to the Dartmoor Railway: The first Rail was laid to the Plymouth & Dartmoor Rail Road by Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, Augt 12, 1819. Left of this is the imprint. Right of this is the signature. Scale - Nautic Mile (1 = 23 mm). The directions on the breakwater sketch are face to the sea and the inside.

27.2. The same map and plan appeared in the following works with the new title New Guide to Plymouth Sound and BreakwateR. The imprint now reads: Devonport. Published by J. Johns, No 56, Fore Street. Cooke´s signature removed. The map scale now reads Statute Mile. The note on Tyrwhitt has been erased. The transverse section has been slightly altered: directions on orientation are now given as Facing the Ocean and Facing Plymouth & Devonport. 
In
 The Tourist's Companion Being a Guide to Devonport, Stoke, Morice-Town, Stonehouse and Plymouth published Devonport by J Johns: London by Baldwin and Cradock. 1828.    KB[2].

The Stranger’s Guide to Plymouth, Devonport, Stonehouse, Stoke, Morice-Town, and Vicinities Plymouth. E Nettleton. (1828). DevA, KB.
 
The Tourist's Companion; Being a Guide to Devonport, ..., by John Sanford  
Devonport. W Colman. (1830.)     BL, TQ.



[1] Note that some libraries catalogue this under Rennie and Whidbey as the text of their report is reprinted together with extracts from a government report of 1812. NLS 3.603(4): other libraries hold this work but only identify “maps”. The two maps were completed 1819 and 1820, but there is an Advertisement dated January 1821. The NLS and BL copies both have Cooke´s Borough map of Plymouth bound in.

[2] The cover title is Sanford´s Devonport & Plymouth Guide (publisher´s printed boards). The 1830 edition also included Cooke 20.3.



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