The history of London in maps and prints

WHITFIELD, Peter.

London: A Life in Maps. New Edition.
London: British Library, 2017. Illustrated wrappers, pp. 224, illustrated throughout.

New.

The history of London is vividly illustrated by maps that have been drawn and published over the past 500 years, covering the devastation of the Great Fire; the emergence of the West End as a place of fashion; the building of the docks; the coming of the railway age & the impact of two World Wars.
A new, enlarged edition of a book first published in 2006.


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