London: A Life in Maps

The British Library has been holding an exhibition of historic maps of London, and this book is published to coincide with it, although serving as a more permanent record of the growth and development of Britain's capital city. Apart from a few earlier sketches we have a much clearer idea of the city from Wyngaerde's panorama of about 1544, strictly speaking not actually a map. About a decade later, however, a copperplate map was engraved, only fragments of which survive, showing a part of the city where the buildings are shown in elevation but clearly laid out as a plan...