142. John Bartholomew / A & C Black 1862

Black's guides appeared from 1855 (130). Among the earliest involvements of John Bartholomew in English county mapping was his series of maps used from 1862¹ Bartholomew drew and engraved a map (possibly of Great Britain) and a transfer was issued in Blacks Guide to the South Western Counties of England (1862). This was a map of Dorset, Devon & Cornwall. From c.1869² the map of Dorset was separated (there were now two maps, Dorset and Devon with Cornwall) in the three county volume. Concurrently the guide to Devon was issued with the larger map now cut down and rebordered, showing Devon separately, and until c.1878 Black’s Guide To Devonshire always included this separate map of Devon. For the Tenth Edition (1879), a new large Bartholomew map was used (see 150).

Although McFarlane's name appears on the first map, the guides were printed by R & R Clark of Edinburgh, and were reprinted almost every year with little or, more often, no change to the text as shown by the fact that the pagination for Devonshire remained that of the combined volume. The early Black’s Guides had an Index map on the inside front cover which covered Dorset, Devon & Cornwall (also regularly updated) and was used in all three county guides. In 1882 this was replaced by a key map of Devon only (156).

Size: 280 x 260 mm.                                                                                                                              Scale of English Miles (20  =  63 mm).