Town : prints & drawings of Britain before 1800 / Bernard Nurse.

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Nurse, Bernard, author. aut

Title & Author:

Town : prints & drawings of Britain before 1800 / Bernard Nurse.

Publication:

Oxford : Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2020.
©2020

Description:

224 pages : illustrations (colour), maps (colour) ; 25 x 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-221) and index.
Introduction -- North of England -- East of England -- South-East -- South-West -- Midlands -- Scotland -- Wales -- Touring Britain in the eighteenth century -- Appendix I: Richard Gough's tours through Britain 1756-71 -- Appendix II: Letters and journals of Richard Gough.

Summary:

"Many provincial towns in Britain grew dramatically in size and importance in the eighteenth century. Ports such as Glasgow and Liverpool greatly expanded, while industrial centers such as Birmingham and Manchester flourished. Market towns outside London developed as commercial centers or as specialty destinations: visitors could find spa treatments in Bath, horse racing in Newmarket, and naval services in Portsmouth. Containing more than one hundred images of country 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 traveled throughout the country on the cusp of the industrial age."-- Publisher description.

ISBN:

9781851245178 hardback
1851245170 hardback

Subject:

Gough, Richard, 1735-1809 Correspondence.
Gough, Richard, 1735-1809 Diaries.
Gough, Richard, 1735-1809
Cities and towns in art.
ART / General.
Great Britain History Pictorial works.
Great Britain In art Early works to 1800.
Great Britain Maps Early works to 1800.
Grande-Bretagne Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
Great Britain

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Diaries
Early works
History
Maps
Personal correspondence
Ouvrages illustrés.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309378
Call No.: BIB 254642
Status: Available

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