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2005 · Mansfield Centre, CT
by Fordham, Herbert George
Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing, 2005. cloth. 8vo. cloth. xii, 99 pages. Sir George Fordham was born in 1859 and produced many publications describing the maps and road books of the British Isles and France and donated his personal road book collection to the Royal Geographical Society. The Society triennially awards the Sir George Fordham Award for Cartobibliography, a 'term introduced by him for the cataloguing of maps on systematic plan'. This book provides an outline of the development and the progress of the art and science of cartography during the long period which precedes the modern systematic surveys organized by the Governments of (truncated)