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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.
Read OnThis ‘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…
Read OnThe 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…
Read OnAllegory, symbolism and stunning colour in Blaeu’s map of the river
Read OnIt’s not pizza, it’s a map.
Read OnA successful business built on strong values: it’s game night with the Dartons.
Read OnThe London labyrinth and the origins of the Metropolitan Railway
Read OnWhip it good: colour-coding the Underground
Read OnCherish your bookbinders: it’s even harder than it looks.
Read OnNo-one ever got rich from maps: a cautionary tale
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