Victorian Maps of England

The county and city maps of Thomas Moule

Thomas Moule, John Lee

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English

Batsford
18 January 2019

History; British & Irish history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Historical maps & atlases

The most beautiful Victorian maps of England's counties and cities by one of Britain's great cartographer's Thomas Moule.

For the first time in a generation, the maps of the mid-19th century are reproduced to a very high standard in a large-format book. The maps are fascinating, decorative and hugely informative of an England in transformation with industrialization and the burgeoning railways. The 60 maps cover the counties of England plus key cities and are accompanied by contemporary descriptions as well as extracts on the counties from the Victorian age. It explores and explains Moule's career and development as a mapmaker and positions him alongside fellow celebrated Victorian pioneers including Brunel, Wedgewood, Bradshaw, Turner, Pugin, Blake, Scott and Wordsworth.

Thomas Moule (1784-1851) is the finest Victorian mapmaker and is regarded as the true follower of John Speed in the cartographic history of Britain. Moule's beautifully observed county and city maps present a minutely detailed record of nineteenth-century England whilst also celebrating its 'ancientness' and history through pastoral or monument views all of which are framed within the cartouches, festoons and architecural ornament of the time. All, however, also show the progress of the Industrial revolution. The maps have remained most influential and highly collectable in both original and as reproductions.

By: Thomas Moule, John Lee
Imprint: Batsford
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 305mm, Width: 400mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 2.050kg
ISBN: 9781849944977
ISBN 10: 1849944970
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 18 January 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Victorian Maps of England is introduced and edited by John Lee who has worked as a London publisher for some twenty years running the Conway Publishing list and more recently setting up the Pool of London Press and Velodrome Publishing. In that time he has commissioned and published a large number of award-winning exploration and cartographic volumes including the recent The Mapmakers World by Marjo Nurminen which won the prestigious Royal Geographic Society Fordham Award for expert cartography.