Maps and Plans for the Local Historian and Collector

David Smith's painstaking survey details all kinds of historic British maps from estate, enclosure and tithe plans to those of the Ordinance Survey and reveals their value to the historian and collector. Over 100 illustrations include the work of the great map-makers - Saxton, Speed, Rocque, Jefferys, Greenwood. The author also studies the methods of surveyors and the various elements of map design, and concludes with bibliographies and notes to each chapter and an extensive county-by-county bibliography. This book may be useful for historians and the collectors of every type of British map.