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Town - Prints and Drawings of Britain Before 1800 (Hardcover)
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Town - Prints and Drawings of Britain Before 1800 (Hardcover)
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Provincial towns in Britain grew in size and importance in the
eighteenth century. Ports such as Glasgow and Liverpool greatly
expanded, while industrial centres such as Birmingham and
Manchester flourished. Market towns outside London developed as
commercial centres or as destinations offering spa treatments as in
Bath, horse racing in Newmarket or naval services in Portsmouth.
Containing over 100 images of towns in England, Wales and Scotland,
this book draws on the extensive Gough collection in the Bodleian
Library. Contemporary prints and drawings provide a powerful visual
record of the development of the town in this period, and finely
drawn prospects and maps - made with greater accuracy than ever
before - reveal their early development. This book also includes
perceptive observations from the journals and letters of collector
Richard Gough (1735-1809), who travelled throughout the country on
the cusp of the industrial age.
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