London: Prints & Drawings Before 1800

by Bernard Nurse

By the end of the eighteenth century London was the second largest city in the world, its relentless growth fuelled by Britain's expanding empire. Before the age of photography, the most widely used means of creating a visual record of the changing capital was through engravings and drawings, and those that survive today are invaluable in showing us what the capital was like in the century leading up to the Industrial Revolution.This book contains...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851244123
• ISBN13: 9781851244126
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Bodleian Library
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 11.2" x 9.7"