On Maps
Dawn of the folding world
The presentation of maps - how they were bought and sold and how they were first used - is something I think about rather a lot (far too much?) It’s...
Dawn of the folding world
The presentation of maps - how they were bought and sold and how they were first used - is something I think about rather a lot (far too much?) It’s...
British Map Engravers: a new dictionary
Forty copies of the new Dictionary of British Map Engravers (Laurence Worms & Ashley Baynton-Williams; Rare Book Society 2011, £125) were wheeled into my shop on Friday afternoon - after...
British Map Engravers: a new dictionary
Forty copies of the new Dictionary of British Map Engravers (Laurence Worms & Ashley Baynton-Williams; Rare Book Society 2011, £125) were wheeled into my shop on Friday afternoon - after...
Mapping the Great Binge
I threatened to come back to thematic and statistical cartography in an earlier post. It does sound like a threat – dry as dust – but actually the development of...
Mapping the Great Binge
I threatened to come back to thematic and statistical cartography in an earlier post. It does sound like a threat – dry as dust – but actually the development of...
From the Great Rebellion to the Great Game: pla...
Cartographic games – often using a map as the board (like Risk) - are a genre in their own right, and one which has attracted ever increasing amounts of scholarly...
From the Great Rebellion to the Great Game: pla...
Cartographic games – often using a map as the board (like Risk) - are a genre in their own right, and one which has attracted ever increasing amounts of scholarly...
Europe as a Lady, England as George and the Dragon
I’m often asked about satirical maps (really! but I do spend all day in a map shop) and it’s a fascinating field: the maps are decorative and entertainingly inventive, and...
Europe as a Lady, England as George and the Dragon
I’m often asked about satirical maps (really! but I do spend all day in a map shop) and it’s a fascinating field: the maps are decorative and entertainingly inventive, and...
London Labour & Mayhew's Maps
THOSE THAT WILL WORK, THOSE THAT CANNOT WORK, AND THOSE THAT WILL NOT WORK … Henry Mayhew identified a fourth class too – those that need not work – not...
London Labour & Mayhew's Maps
THOSE THAT WILL WORK, THOSE THAT CANNOT WORK, AND THOSE THAT WILL NOT WORK … Henry Mayhew identified a fourth class too – those that need not work – not...