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The History Of London In Maps
Relié / 176 pages / édition de 1990
langue(s) : anglais
éditeur : Barrie & Jenkins
ISBN : 0712636501
EAN : 9780712636506
dimensions : 345 (h) x 250 (l) x 21 (ép) mm
poids : 1215 grammes
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In this splendid album Felix Barker and Peter Jackson present a vivid survey of the range of maps of London since the 1550s, and of the social and architectural history they portray. Every map is accompanied by contemporary scenes and views, giving the reader a rich picture of the city in all its stages of development, from mid-Tudor times to the present.

All the great cartographers - Agas, Rocque, Ogilby, Horwood - are represented, and in addition to the classic maps there are many unusual ones: a Victorian view from a balloon, a 19th-century 'plague' of the Demon Drink, a map designed to be worn as a glove (for visitors to the 1851 Great Exhibition), the Metroland boom. There are a number of local maps (including Greenwich, Hampstead, Islington); and maps showing the creation of the West End, Regency London, Trafalgar Square, Mayfair and Belgravia.

Peter Jackson's unrivalled knowledge of the early prints of London has uncovered some remarkable combinations, enabling us to imagine ourselves in the city at all sorts of times and places - beneath the walls of Lambeth Palace when it was surrounded only by marshlands, in the shadow of old St Paul's, in Chelsea or Kensington when they were still truly rural villages. The great landmarks in London's history, which have shaped its modern form, are fully charted: the Great Fire, the building of the bridges, the destruction of the gates in the old wall, the rise and decline of the docks (and their modern renewal as Docklands), the onset of the railway age (both over and under ground), and the slum clearances and developments of our own century.

Felix Barker's text and captions provide a lively and anecdotal commentary, full of unexpected 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.
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