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Victorian Maps of England: The county and city maps of Thomas Moule
Victorian Maps of England: The county and city maps of Thomas Moule
Product Details:
| Category: | Books |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 1849944970 |
| Title: | Victorian Maps of England: The county and city maps of Thomas Moule The Cheap Fast Free Post |
| Author: | Lee, John |
| Publisher: | Batsford |
| Year Published: | 2018 |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Book Binding: | Hardback |
| Prizes: | |
| Book Condition: | VERYGOOD |
| SKU: | GOR009915000 |
Item description
The most beautiful Victorian maps of England's counties and cities in large format by one of Britain's great cartographer's Thomas Moule.
Thomas Moule was one of the finest Victorian mapmakers and isregarded as the true follower of John Speed in the cartographic historyof Britain. Moules beautifully observed county and city maps presenta minutely detailed record of 19th-century England. They were firstpublished in collectable parts between 1830 and 1837 and thenpublished together in the extensive 2-volume masterwork The EnglishCounties Delineated.
Moule celebrated the ancientness and history of each county byincluding pastoral or monument views within the maps, all framedby cartouches, festoons and architectural ornament in a variety ofhistorical styles. But underpinning this ancient vision is the hand ofthe British Industrial Revolution. Moules maps are deeply informedby the early technical work of the Ordnance Survey and record theunstoppable growth of the major cities and the unrelenting spread ofthe railways.
The maps have remained influential and highly collectable asboth originals and as reproductions. For the first time in a generationthis new large-format volume, comprising 55 county and city maps,presents the main body of Thomas Moules work alongside his originaldetailed text descriptions. The books Introduction explains Moulescareer as a writer and antiquary and sets his celebrated maps in thecontext of the technical cartographic revolution in which they werepublished. The book examines the wide-ranging artistic and culturalinfluences exhibited as Moule combines accurate cartography withhighly decorative architectural frames and evocative, Romantic,pastoral views of the England he so cherished. In doing so it positionshim alongside his fellow celebrated Victorian pioneers, includingGeorge Virtue, William Westall, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, JMWTurner, Augustus Pugin, Edward Stanford and George Bradshaw.
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