Author: Peter Barber
Publisher: British Library
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Over the past 2000 years, London has developed from a small town, fitting snugly within its walls, into one of the world's largest and most dynamic cities. London: A History in Maps illustrates and helps to explain the transformation using over 400 examples of maps. Side-by-side with the great, semi-official, but sanitized images of the whole city, there are the more utilitarian maps and plans of the parts--actual and envisaged--which perhaps present more than topographical records. They all have something unique to say about the time when they were created. Peter Barber's book reveals the "inside story" behind one of the world's greatest cities.
Author: Iain Sinclair
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500022290
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This insightful, evocative, and sumptuous volume brings Charles Booth's landmark survey of late nineteenth-century London to a new audience.
Author: Geraldine Edith Mitton
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 53
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Maps of Old London is a collection of accurate and helpful maps of Old London. These maps include immersive descriptions of these places in London at the time. Excerpt: "This is the earliest representation of London that has come down to our time. Accurately speaking, it is not a map, but a picture; but as many of the old maps are more or less in the same category, we need not exclude it on that account..."
Author: A-Z Maps
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008382980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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For the last century A-Z maps have been the trusted and reliable source of mapping for Londoners. As the face of London has changed so have the maps. History of Britain in Maps author, Philip Parker, will outline these changes and reveal how the city has changed over the last one hundred years in this beautiful coffee table book.
Author: Peter Whitfield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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London has been changing and evolving. It has been renewing or replacing the streets and buildings at its heart and has been spreading inexorably outwards. This book illustrates this process by maps of London; and offers a panorama of London's history by focusing on its maps.
Author: Geraldine Edith Mitton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Author: Felix Barker
Publisher: Barrie & Jenkins
ISBN: 9780712636506
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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In this large-format album, the author presents a survey of the range of maps of London since 1550, and of the social and architectural history they portray. Every map is accompanied by contemporary scenes and views, so that the reader obtains an unravelled picture of the city in all its stages of development. The text and captions provide an anecdotal commentary, full of unexpected and unfamiliar details for those who already know and love the capital, and with a clear outline of London's history for those new to the city.
Author: Adam Dant
Publisher: Batsford Books
ISBN: 1849945330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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A spectacular, large-format collection of Adam Dant's fine art maps giving a unique view of our history and life today. Artist and cartographer Adam Dant surveys London's past, present and future from his studio in the East End. Beautiful, witty and subversive, his astonishing maps offer a compelling view of history, lore, language and life in the capital and beyond. Traversed by a plethora of colourful characters including William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Mary Wollstonecraft and Barbara Windsor, Adam Dant's maps extend from the shipwrecks on the bed of the Thames to the stars in the sky over Soho. Along the way, he captures all the rich traditions in the capital, from brawls and buried treasure to gin and gentlemen's clubs. Accompanying text by the artist gives the background to each of the handsome cartographic artworks, revealing his inspirations and artistic process and outlining his cultural allusions. Reproduced in large format, the maps invite the reader to study all the astonishing and often hilarious details within, offering hours of fascination for the curious. Published in conjunction with the Spitalfields Life blog, Maps of London & Beyond includes an extensive interview with Adam Dant by the blog's founder The Gentle Author.
Author: Carl Moreland
Publisher: Phaidon Incorporated Limited
ISBN: 9780714829548
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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A standard reference work and collector's guide to old maps. Antique Maps is now firmly established as a definitive reference work. With extensive information on the general historical background, details of all the major map-makers and practical advice on collecting old maps, it provides an excellent introduction for the beginner as well as a mass of precise and clearly organized information for the expert and the serious collector. A beautiful edition in itself, this timeless volume evokes the elegance of maps from the past and the charm of all the distant places they suggest, to show them not only as historical artefacts but also as works of art.
Author: Philip Parker
Publisher: Times Books
ISBN: 9780008258344
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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100 maps give a visual representation of the history of Britain. From Mappa Mundi to modern election maps, UK has evolved rapidly, along with the ways in which it has been mapped
