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London Underground Maps: Art, Design and Cartography

London Underground Maps: Art, Design and Cartography by Claire Dobbin, published by Lund Humphries in association with the London Transport Museum, is a lavishly illustrated account of the history of presenting and promoting London’™s Underground network through posters and maps. Written by Claire Dobbin, Senior Curator at the Museum where she specializes in the Underground’™s design heritage and art patronage, the book’™s fascinating narrative provides a chronological account from the lovely early 20th century decorative maps of MacDonald Gill and Harry Beck’™s iconic 1931 design to the present.Illustrated throughout by numerous reproductions of maps, art works, posters and merchandise from the Museum’™s rich collections, the book is a must for lovers of art, design and cartography as well as the history of London.

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