Forwarded from MapHist   ... a very fine online publication!

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Subject:        'Printed Maps of Kent 1575-1900'
Date:   Mon, 2 Mar 2009 18:00:14 -0000
From:   Tony Campbell <[log in to unmask]>
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Can I draw attention to the following new *online* publication:

'Printed Maps of Kent 1575-1900' by R.A. [Tony] Burgess.

      http://www.oldkentmaps.co.uk/

This is a book-length cartobibliography, of the most thorough type, listing
every published map and their sometimes numerous variants; with clear
explanations to aid understanding of the bibliography and the way that the
maps relate to Kent's history.

As far as I am aware this is the first county bibliography of this scale to
be placed on the web, for all to access freely.

It is accompanied by a large collection of images, though those are for
recognition rather than study purposes.

A succession of post-War bibliographies of different English counties has
set new cartobibliographical standards, with each building on the work of
predecessors (since the majority of such maps appeared in county atlases,
which constitute a shared history).

Tony Burgess is to be thanked and congratulated for his noteworthy
contribution to the genre.

Tony Campbell

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