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32. Cooke´s Pocket Plan of the Three Towns

32. Title: COOKE`S STRANGER`S GUIDE OR POCKET PLAN of the three Towns OF PLYMOUTH, DEVONPORT AND STONEHOUSE.
Date: 1827.
Size: 260 x 365 mm.
Imprint(s): Pubd Octr 1st 1827 by John Cooke 82 Union Street Stonehouse Plymo. Pr. 1s.6d. – Entd at Stationers Hall.
Signature(s): See imprint.
Location(s): see below.[1]
 
 
Comments: Attractive triangular patterned border. This is both a more detailed and an untidier looking map. Cooke or the artist who drew the plan has attempted to show more landscape features and there is a large amount of hill shading as well as hachuring along the coast. The Block House is now sat upon a small hill. Coastal shading has been included around Dock and there are large outcrops of rock in the harbour at the mouth of Mill Bay.
Urban development is shown and Stoke and New Town are taking shape. The Gas Works appear just before Stonehouse. Note the sudden change of direction of the Dartmoor Railway as well as the coats of arms of the Three Towns.
This seems to have been sold separately but is also found bound in to a work by Cooke. The title page refers to two half-sheet copper plates to elucidate – i.e., Cooke 30.2. However, besides the loose sheet, the only other two known examples of this plan were both tipped in to this volume: Published and sold by John Cooke, Map & Chart Engraver, and Geographer Extraordinary to HRH The Duke of Clarence, Lord High Admiral.
 
a) Broadsheet map sold separately, price 1 shilling and sixpence.   DoC.[2]
 
b) In The Traveller’s Directory, and Stranger's Guide to the Three Towns
Plymouth. John Cooke. 1828.   DevA, KB.


[1] Other major libraries only have the facsimile published by WDRO in 2008 (illustrated).

[2] Duchy of Cornwall: Bound in a scrapbook with two other plans with title Plymouth (Library D/b/9).

     

Link to Map 33.

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