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29. Map of the area around Plymouthfor 12 miles

29.1 Title: Map Of The Country Twelve Miles Round Plymo DOCK in circular panel.
Date: 1821.
Size: 220 x 285 mm.
Imprint(s): none.
Signature(s): none.
Location(s): P.  

Image copyright Celsus Books

Comments: The Panorama of Plymouth by Samuel Rowe appeared in 1821. Rowes (i.e. Rowe´s) would be the publisher Samuel Rowe (1793-1853) who was the son of an affluent local farmer. He had no desire to follow in his father´s footsteps and after a grammar school education and an apprenticeship in Kingsbridge he ran a bookshop in Plymouth. He went on to become a noted antiquary, being one of the first members (and one of the first secretaries) of the Plymouth Athenaeum, and to write what became the standard work on Dartmoor, his Perambulations. Later on in life he would become first minister in the church of St Paul at Stonehouse.

The scale is established by 5-mile squares and numbering along the borders. It shows the surrounding area from Seaton and St Ives in Cornwall as far east as Bigbury Bay and Ivybridge and showing the main roads in the region. From the south coast it stretches north to Walkhampton and Callington. Morwhellam Tunnel is shown but the Dartmoor Railway is not.

Two different states of the map have been seen in, apparently, concurrent issues of the work. Both title pages and contents are identical to both but one copy has been seen with map title referring to Plymouth Dock which seems to be an earlier version of title and lacks an imprint. Unfortunately, the one copy could not be inspected.

 
In The Panorama of Plymouth ... By Samuel Rowe     
Plymouth. Rowes. 1821.

 

29.2: Title amended: MAP OF THE COUNTRY Twelve Miles Round PLYMOUTH. 
Imprint added (CeOS): Published for the Panorama of Plymouth by Rowes Whimple St. 1821. 
Signature added: Engd by J. Cooke Stonehouse below the title. Foliate design to circular title panel.

In The Panorama of Plymouth ... By Samuel Rowe. 
Plymouth. Rowes. 1821. BL 10368.a.65, V&A, TQ, DEI, KB.

The Panorama of Plymouth ... By Samuel Rowe - Second Edition
Plymouth. Rowes. (1830*). DevA (sB/PLY 1/1827/ROW), KB.

   

This later edition has an extra illustrated page consisting of a small sketch map of the area as well as sketches of the types of boats used in the construction of the breakwater (see below).

              



NOTES:

P - Copy on sale at Celsus Books, 8 Royal York Crescent, Bristol, BS8 4JZ in October 2023.
* This Second Edition is usually dated to 1827 on the basis of a tomb inscription reproduced on page 112 of the second section (Excursions). However in section one there is a footnote on page 201 referring to the Appendix. Here, on page vi, there is a section on Eldad Chapel which was finally completed in 1830 for the Rev. John Hawker and described as "in the Gothic style ... presents a pleasing object from various parts of the neighbourhood."


Link to Map 30.

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