3. Half-Inch maps showing South Devon indicating changes to maps and covers until 1960.

SOUTH DEVON

 Size: 480 x 705 mm folding to 195 x 105 mm.                            Scales 2 Miles to an Inch (5=65 mm). 

SOUTH DEVON (CaOS). Imprints: NEW REDUCED ORDNANCE SURVEY OF ENGLAND AND WALES. - Scale, 2 miles to an inch. (AaOS) and By JOHN BARTHOLOMEW, FRGS (EaOS). Signatures: THE EDINBURGH GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE. and COPYRIGHT. JOHN BARTHOLOMEW FRGS (EeOS). Note: For continuation Northward see NORTH DEVON (Ca). Coloured and contoured with a coloured Height Bar (Ee) and note Eddystone Lighthouse 14 Miles SW of Plymouth (BeOS). Scale bar below map.

Key to roads below map: Driving & Cycling Roads and Other Roads. Key below map has Railways, eg to Plymstock, and Railways constructing: Ashton-Exeter complete with line to Chagford (wrong route) with stations, eg Fingle Br., and to Lynton. Note on contours at Plymouth. Covers the area from Polperro to Budleigh Salterton and Okehampton (breaking border) and Exeter in the north. Border broken at Prawle Point.

Cover title is: BARTHOLOMEW'S REDUCED ORDNANCE SURVEY with added sticker - SOUTH DEVON (and scale) FOR TOURISTS & CYCLISTS. Publisher's imprint:  JOHN BARTHOLOMEW & Co. The Edinburgh Geographical Institute, PARK ROAD, EDINBURGH. 

1. 1896[1]           a) Brown cover (paper edition) is: Bartholomew's Reduced Ordnance Survey South Devon              Price One Shilling.                                                                                                        [TN[2]].

 

2. 1898[3]           Title now: BARTHOLOMEW'S REDUCED ORDNANCE SURVEY OF ENGLAND & WALES. SCALE 2 MILES TO AN INCH (CaOS) with number added: SHEET 36 (AaOS) and secondary title SOUTH DEVON (EaOS). Railway to Turnchapel and Yealmpton as well as Budleigh Salterton. Mineral railway downgraded NE of Liskeard. Line to Chagford deleted. Height bar has low tide note. Covers the area from West Looe to Sidmouth (breaking border) and Okehampton, Exeter and Ottery St. Mary in the north. Border broken at Moorswater, Wiggaton and Prawle Point, i.e. map is wider to the east, eg Sidmouth with slight loss west (West Looe just present). Index to Adjoining Set (Ae) (replaces previous note on continuation on North Devon map). Explanatory Note with the scale bar (Ee) but no box. 

                        a) Brown cover (paper edition) is: Bartholomew’s Reduced Ordnance Survey – Sheet 36 South Devon Price One Shilling. Two copies held[4]. 

                        b) Blue cover (linen edition) is: Bartholomew’s Reduced Ordnance Survey – Sheet 36 South Devon Price Two Shillings.                                                                          [BL, RGS, C, NLS][5]. 

3. 1901[6]           Scale bar drawn around border surrounding map. Road key is now: Driving & Cycling Routes in new EXPLANATORY NOTE in box. This includes a new SCALE 1:126 720 = 2 MILES TO AN INCH, replacing former scale bar. New height colours (low tide note removed). Index to Adjoining Set (Ae) removed. Railway Budleigh to Exmouth added.                       

a)      Brown cover (paper edition) is: Bartholomew’s Reduced Ordnance Survey Price One Shilling Net.                                                                                                          [TN]. 

4. 1902            Map title is now BARTHOLOMEW'S “HALF-INCH TO MILE” MAP OF  ENGLAND & WALES (AaOS) with SOUTH DEVON (CaOS). Note on contours of Plymouth removed. Emblem of the Cyclists’ Tourists Club (CeOS, emblem also added on back cover) with note: Roads Revised. The note on roads reads: First Class Roads and Secondary –“- with a note on dangerous hills. There are directions in red in border. New publisher’s note: Reduced by Permission etc. 

                 a) Blue cover (linen edition) is: Bartholomew’s Reduced Ordnance Survey

                Price Two Shillings Net. 

5. 1905            Map has height bar with Low Tide to 5 Fathoms. There are mileages and directions in border. Note: Roads Revised By The Cyclists’ Tourists Club. Note on dangerous hills deleted. Skerries Bank named. 

a)      Blue cover (linen edition):  title, price and address as before. Three pages of adverts stuck to reverse of map to advertise Bartholomew products. 

                        b) Blue cover (linen edition): title, price and address as before. Four pages of adverts stuck to reverse; extra page is picture of The Geographical Institute.                       

                        c) Red cover[7] – title and design as before, but sold by George Philip & Son, Ltd. The London Geographical Institute, 32 Fleet Street. Four pages of adverts stuck to reverse; extra page is picture of The Geographical Institute. No price.                                                             

6. 1910            The note on roads: First Class Roads then Through Routes and Secondary Routes. Railway to Kelly Bray added.                       

a) Blue cover (linen edition). Price Two Shillings Net. 

b) Red Bartholomew cover – Red cover with George Philip’s address printed on cover itself (not a label) (dissected). 

c) Blue Wilson cover – Specially produced cover for Alfred Wilson (dissected: illustrated). 



7. 1915            Royal Automobile Club edition with their name and address etc., and sold as Bartholomew’s Road Map (Complete in 37 sheets). Price 2/6 net  per sheet, mounted on linen, and cut in special folding sections. Stiff green card cover with index map of series and South Devon highlighted in red.

                        Note on map: For planning a motoring tour ... 10/-  (AeOS).   

8. 1916            The note on roads: has Motoring Roads: Through Routes and First Class Roads and Secondary –“- in table. Introduction of Compass Rose with true and magnetic north. Printer’s mark added: B16.[8] Address on cover is Duncan Street.[9]     

a)      Brown cover (paper edition) is: Bartholomew’s New Reduced Survey

 Price One Shilling & Sixpence Net. 

9. 1920            AA Touring Department edition. Yellow covers - paper labels on cloth with index map of series on reverse. No price but annual membership and joining fees on back: one guinea joining fee and two guineas annual fee for car members. Compass with true and magnetic north (Aa) dated 1920. Printer’s mark: A20. New scale bar (miles and kilometres) replaces note in Explanatory Note. 

10. 1923          Compass with mag. var. only (Aa) dated 1923. Printer’s mark: B23. Note: The publishers would appreciate ... friendly cooperation (EeOS). Note on Ministry of Transport road numbers with example A 35. Note Continued on Sheet … in margins. 

                        a) Yellow covers - AA Touring Department edition with paper labels on cloth with with index map of series on reverse.                       

                        b) Pale blue cover - specially prepared for Sifton, Praed and Co., Ltd of The Map House, London. Part of complete set in leather case (illustrated)



Note: circa 1924 (North Devon seen) new cover titles were introduced: BARTHOLOMEW’S REVISED HALF INCH TO MILE and the titles of the sheet (and front label) becomes Sheet 36 Dartmoor with for Motorists & Cyclists. All covers seen after this date are blue although all forms (paper, mounted, dissected and mounted) were still on offer. Front and back covers are single sheets stuck onto panels on the reverse of the map. 

11. 1927          DARTMOOR replaces SOUTH DEVON (AeOS). Compass with mag. var. only (Aa) dated 1927. Printer’s marks: A27 (AaOS) and 882 (AeOS). CTC emblems removed.                       

a) Blue cover (mounted on cloth). Price Three Shillings Net. 

Note: circa 1935 new covers were introduced, the previous cover being replaced with a more modern looking (blue) design and maps were only published dissected from this time. This cover has a royal crest By Appointment To The King (CeOS) at top with title BARTHOLOMEW’S REVISED “HALF INCH” CONTOURED  MAPS and sheet name below a logo of the British Isles and title ENGLAND (later GREAT BRITAIN), SHEET 2 DARTMOOR. Top of cover has new sheet number at top (see text for notes on introduction of these).

Each map has new frame and graticule. Adjoining sheets table, MoT numbers, and publisher’s note are all below map border. Simple compass in (right) margin. Imprints: THE GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE, EDINBURGH (AeOS) and COPYRIGHT - JOHN BARTHOLOMEW AND SON LTD, (EeOS). Royal crest replaces CTC symbol. 

12. 1942          Title of map: BARTHOLOMEW’S REVISED HALF INCH MAP – DARTMOOR – GREAT BRITAIN SHEET 2 (ENGLAND & WALES No. 36) .

                        Cover as described but note on map: By Appointment To The Late King George V (CeOS).  Printer’s marks: B42 (AaOS) & 1010 (Ae) in border. Expl. note now: Recommended Through Routes. NT properties purple, eg Bolt Head. NT example given: Rockbeare Hill. Road is A 38.    

a) Blue cover (mounted on cloth). Price 4/- Net (price sticker). Cover numbering 2 and Eng. 36 (style 3). 

13. 1948          Cover as described but top line is now 2 Dartmoor 2 with By Appointment To The Late King George V below royal crest.  No England and Wales sheet in title. Printer’s mark: 506 (AeOS). Note: Reduced by permission ... June 1948 below scale.                       

a) Blue cover (on cloth). 4/- Net. Cover numbering 2 and 2 (style 5). 

14. 1955          More notes (DeOS) eg aerodrome, radio stations (added to map) as well as sign for National Parks: Dartmoor National Park in purple (NT property).  Printer’s mark: 1442 (AeOS). Note: Reduced by permission ... Sep. 1955 below scale. A. Back cover has map of GB with Bartholomew’s Revised Half-Inch Great Britain index to sheets east of Scotland. B. Paper – net: Back cover has framed map of GB with Bartholomew’s Half-Inch Series at top.                       

a) Blue cover (cloth). 5/- Net. Cover numbering 2 and 2 (style 5).


[1] Eugene Burden reports that 1750 copies were printed on 12th October 1896 according to Volume 25 the records of the Bartholomew firm (now housed at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh).

[2] Previously in the collection of the late Tim Nicholson.

[3] Burden reports that 3108 copies were printed 26th Dec. 1898 according to Volume 30 the records of the Bartholomew firm.

[4] One advertising W H Smith& Sons Travelling Maps series and one advertising Bartholomew's Pocket Series.

[5] Copies are believed to be at British Library, Royal Geographical Society, Cambridge University Library and National Library of Scotland.

[6] Burden reports that 3030 copies were printed on 7th June 1901 according to Volume 32 the records of the Bartholomew firm.

[7] Maps distributed by Philips seem to have been specially bound in red cloth covers. This issue is dissected and mounted on linen.

[8] Ross Kennedy suggests coding is A for first half year and B for second half of year – here 1916.

[9] Duncan Street address fom circa 1911.

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