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We’ve been enjoying these strikingly beautiful views of London by night, produced as promotional material by paint manufacturers Pinchin, Johnson & Co. Ltd.
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This ‘Plan of the Kendal & Windermere Railway with the centre of the Lake District’ was published in Liverpool by the firm of Maclure, MacDonald & MacGregor circa 1850. The Lancaster & Carlisle Railway has been coloured blue, the Kendal & Windermere is shown in red. Thomas Hill of Kendal who is credited in the…
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The atlas in front of me has quite a story. Published at the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars, this is a British-produced pilot book. It’s a marine atlas with charts, coastal profiles and descriptive text, which in this case covers the French and Italian coastlines as far south as Naples. It belonged to the…
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Allegory, symbolism and stunning colour in Blaeu’s map of the river
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It’s not pizza, it’s a map.
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A successful business built on strong values: it’s game night with the Dartons.
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The London labyrinth and the origins of the Metropolitan Railway
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Whip it good: colour-coding the Underground
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Cherish your bookbinders: it’s even harder than it looks.
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No-one ever got rich from maps: a cautionary tale
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