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  WELCOME to Kit´s Blog Last update April 2025 WELCOME to the website of KIT BATTEN. I am the author of a number of books on Maps and Mapping, especially of Devon, my place of birth.  Start here for an overview of all the blogs in these pages - simply click the title: Latest Blog Updates: NEW EXAMPLES OF PART ISSUES FOUND - April 2025 Jennings vs Fisher: Two Illustrated Books on Devon 1829   -  -  Second Edition -   The London publishers Jennings and Fisher brought out copiously illustrated part-works issued monthly on the same day in September 1829 - a review and complete listing of all maps and images. Two almost complete parts issue sets found in spring 2024. Previously unrecorded. NOW COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDA TED  - October / November 2024 J ohn Cooke - Cartographic Works   -  Third Edition   The complete list of  all John Cooke´s work  - both his London maps and his Plymouth output. Together with a comprehensive overvi...