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The Queen's Atlas
- Saxton's Elizabethan Masterpiece
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Queen's Atlas af David Fletcher, 9781851246205
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Engelsk
Sider:
232
ISBN-13:
9781851246205
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1851246207
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Udg. Dato:
6 nov 2025
Størrelse i cm:
25,0 x 21,0
Oplagsdato:
6 nov 2025
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The Queen's Atlas

- Saxton's Elizabethan Masterpiece
Engelsk
Hardback 2025
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Nowadays, we take for granted the ready availability of maps of all kinds. In mid-Tudor England, they were rare. All this was to change in 1579 when Christopher Saxton, a farmer from the West Riding of Yorkshire, became the first cartographer to make a published atlas of all the counties of England and Wales. This book traces the story of Saxton’s life and legacy by reconstructing his extraordinary mapmaking project alongside the crucial nature of the support and encouragement he received from Queen Elizabeth I and her court. Saxton’s atlas became the template for most detailed maps of the country for almost two centuries: it is hard to exaggerate its importance. For many, his atlas provided the first detailed image of England and Wales they had ever seen, showing the Elizabethan kingdom as a whole and in its constituent parts. This lavishly illustrated book reproduces all Saxton’s county maps together with many other illustrations revealing the forebears and successors to this groundbreaking work. Today, Saxton’s maps give us an invaluable cartographic snapshot of late Tudor England.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
232
ISBN-13:
9781851246205
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1851246207
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
6 nov 2025
Størrelse i cm:
25,0 x 21,0
Oplagsdato:
6 nov 2025
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