British Town Maps

28 January, 2016
Author: Roger J.P. Kain & Richard R. Oliver
Genre: Art Architecture
Category: New Books

A cartographic history of Britain's towns from the middle ages until the modern day. Revealing the ingenuity of cartographers through the ages as they sought to represent and communicate the pattern of streets, spaces above and below ground, the buildings and the economy of the places they charted. Beauitfully illustrated throughout, this is a major research resource for historians and a book of great interest for the lay reader.