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The following important article is in danger of slipping under the radar.
http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2010articles/article1.html
'Fortunate Survivors: Maps and Map Fragments in the Bagford Collection',
Electronic British Library Journal (2010). The author, Tom Harper, is curator
of antiquarian mapping at the British Library.
Its concern is with the 129 scrapbooks of prints put together by the antiquary
and book dealer John Bagford (1650-1716). Among the varied material he
gathered as printing samples were numerous whole, or often fragmentary maps, a
number of them otherwise unknown.
Tom, who found time for this while being engrossed, with Peter Barber, in their
'Magnificent Maps' exhibition, has identified and listed all the cartographic
material, and described the most interesting.
In my day at the British Library we were all aware of the Bagford Collection,
but nobody knew exactly what was in it, since the maps are widely and randomly
dispersed. As Tom delicately puts it, glossing over the collection's chaotic
arrangement, Bagford was a man 'with more of an appreciation than an agenda'.
Tony Campbell
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