Fifty Maps and the Stories They Tell Stocked at AH and over 200 other authors

and over 200 other authors this stunning hand-lettered poster has been compiled and designed by Jonathan Coleclough

Books written in blood and books that kill

please welcome to the stage a facsimile of a stage direction from the 1623 First Folio King Lear - the first appearance of the Fool

the lighthouse in Bell's design is central and yet tantalisingly just out of reach - as the shape of the lighthouse is evoked only

Fifty Maps and the Stories They Tell Stocked at AH and over 200 other authorsFrom a Siberian sealskin map to Grayson Perry's tapestry map via Narnia, Middle Earth and a twelfth century Arabic map of the Mediterranean, this book is a cartographical treasure trove covering over a thousand years of map making, both fictional and non fictional. Each map is paired with a narrative explaining how it came to be made, and the significance of what it shows. Paperback, 144 pages. Measures 19. 6 x 19. 6 cm.