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33. Large map of Plymouth and surrounding areas 33.1. Title: THE ENVIRONS OF PLYMOUTH DEVONPORT AND STONE HOUSE. Added title below this: A Companion to the Different Guides of the Neighbourhood . The title itself is within a lozenge (Ae) with two notes within its borders: on 4 Plates (top) and to Subs.5s. Sellg. Pr. 7s (bottom). Date : [1828]. Size : Printed on four plates, each c. 246 x 273 mm. When combined map size is c. 485 x 550 mm. Imprint(s) : Engraved & Sold by John Cooke Union Stt Stonehouse below title in lozenge. Signature(s) : see above. Location(s) : see below. Comments: This completed map is made up of four sheets (Plates) as described in John Cooke´s Proposals and in his letter to the Mayor, Pridham. Each plate has a piano key border on two sides and a plain two-line border on the ‘joining’ sides. A note above the border reads PLATE. 1. (2, 3, or 4). Scale of Statute Miles (2 = 49 mm) below title lozenge. PLATE.1 - Portwrinkle to the Mew Stone and north to St Bu...
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35. Map of Dartmoor 35.1. Title: A Map of the Whole of the Dartmoor Forest, Devon, From Okehampton to Saltram, And from Lydford to Chagford : Date : [1840] Size : 340 x 610 mm. Imprint (s): Signature(s) : Engraved on two adjoining copper plates By John Cooke, Engr. and Geogr Extry to his late Majy in the 75th year of Age. Location(s) : StzB [1] , WDRO [2] . Bod reports a W Wood (1861) copy.   Comments: The title is top centre of the sheet with text on both sides beginning on the left hand side as A Sketch of Contents of Dartmoor . This finishes below the title and the right hand column is The Principal and Secondary Rivers etc. There is no bottom border to map. The map was reissued at least twice. William Wood was already using The Environs of Plymouth Devonport And Stone House by Cooke (see 33 ) at about the same time as this map of Dartmoor was reissued in 1850. The Environs was sold as a folding map in covers before it appeared in his guides, Rambles about Plymouth & D...