- SKU: 9781851246205
- BARCODE: 9781851246205
- VENDOR: BooksCloud
The Queen's Atlas: Saxton's Elizabethan Masterpiece - Hardcover
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Description
by David Fletcher (Author)
A cartographic snapshot of late Tudor England, gorgeously reproduced with the first county maps of England and Wales.
Nowadays, we take for granted the ready availability of maps of all kinds, but in Tudor England, maps were rare. All this changed 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. 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 of Saxton's county maps together with many other drawings revealing the forebears and successors of this groundbreaking work. Today, Saxton's maps give us an invaluable cartographic snapshot of late Tudor England.
Author Biography
David H. Fletcher is an independent researcher specializing in the history of English and Welsh cartography in the early modern and modern eras.
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