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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...