IMAGES ABOVE 01 Osbert Lancaster Draynflete Revealed, John Murray London 1949 22 x 29cms, 02 anon, Nursery Rhyme Land, London c1925 03 04, George R.Stewart's US 40, CROSS SECTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Houghton Mifflin Boston 1953, illustrations by Erwin Reisz 05 Donald Foster / John Wood/ Quietest Under the Sun , Museum Press London 1944; 21 x 27cms; an illustrated Guidebook to Mercia and Mid Wales for the literate rambler. 06 Geoffrey Robinson/ Hockley Clarke/ The Unfolding Year, Salisbury Square, London, 1947/ 22 x29cms. the Village of Twyfield recorded during twelve calendar months. 07 Geofrey Wales/ Janet and John Hampden/ Sir Francis Drake's Raid on the Treasure Trains, Folio Society, London 1954 21 x 28cms. A map of the Caribbean where incident and cartographic conventions rather put into the shade the geographical details of the coastline. 08 Arthur Ransome/ Arthur Ransome/ Missee Lee, Cape, London, 1941 20 x27cms; a children's fictitious adventure set off the coast of China; here with clear colour coded tracks that correspond exactly with the narrative. 09 Harold Jones/M.E.Atkinson/ Mystery Manor, John Lane, Bodley Head, London 1939, 20 x 26cms; and the most logical excuse for the endpaper map - the Who Dunnit. A detective book for children with beautiful drawings by Harold Jones. 10 Richard Herrick/ Malcolm Saville/ Jane's Country Year, Newnes, London 1946, 24 x 36cms , back end paper of the country around the farm described in the book. 11 Joan Hassall/ Frances Brett Young/ Portrait of a Village Heinemann London 1937, 21 x 30cms. "I take this opportunity of declaring that no village like it [Monk's Norton] has ever existed outside my imagination..." FBY 12.A.M.Highes, J.K.Stanford, Bledgrave Hall, Country Book Club, London 1953, 20 x 27cms., and an account of efforts to encourage avocets to breed in the marshland around Bledgrave Hall. 13 Melville Colley/Melville Colley/The Bamboo Bird, Press, London 1947, 25 x 35cms. an illustrated book for children , a Bamboo Bird hatches and saves Chinese twins from an Evil spell. 14 George Him/ Ann Thwaite/ The Day with the Duke, Brockhampton Leicester 1969; an illustrated book for children about a girl and a boy who spend the day at a Stately Home - and are driven home in the carriage at the end of the Day. For George Him, see Archive 15 . Robin Tanner/Helen Tanner/ Wiltshire Village, Collins, London, 1939. The classic visual and literary study of an English village with illustrations of great beauty. In so many ways the map is a model of what it should be. 16 . Rockwell Kent/ Rockwell Kent , Wilderness A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska, Blue Ribbon, New York 1920, 28 x 34 cms. Not so much a bird's eye view but that of one of Kent's idealised spirits.

 

SINGLE EXAMPLES Hans Christian Andersen as an Artist, Kjeld Heltoft, Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs , Copenhagen, birds eye view 1856 Roy Strong Diaries,Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1997 endpaper by Jonathan Miles-Lea 1995 Michael Hague, Wind in the Willows, FOR METHUEN George Hardie CLUEDO 1983 NOLLEKENS' LONDON FROM J.T.Smith E.H.Shepard THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER, 1926 CHARLES FOLKARD THE LAND OF NURSERY RHYMES, 1932 EDWARD SEAGO WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES IN ITALY1945 THE CHILDREN'S LONDON 1932 SPEAK MEMORY, Nabokov's 1966 Puttnam edition REALLY MISS HENDERSON 1945 JOHN VERNEY, FRIDAY'S TUNNEL, 1959 THE PATH BY THE WATER, illust Helen Munro, 1945 (14x20cms) TYL ULENSPIEGEL, illustrated edition Frand Masereel, 1944 Samuel Chamberlain, Cape Cod in the Sun, 1937 (23 x 32 page size) Russell Davenport, Covering All Fronts, 1947 (22 x 28 page size) COLLEY, Melvin The Bamboo Bird 1947 (better scan) Dale Maxey, Seeing London, 1968 Richard Church, A Squirrel called Rufus, 1941, illust, John Skeaping William Joyce , Dinosaur Bob and his Adventures with the family Lazardo, 1988 Robert Henrey, The Siege of London, Dent 1946 (from Eric Hanson) John Buchan Huntingtower, Hodder and Stoughton 1922 (from Eric Hanson) Margery Allingham Dancers in Mourning, 1937 (from Eric Hanson) Thomas Hardy Short Stories 1928 Mrs Lewis Chase, A Vagabond Voyage through Brittany Hutchinson 1915 E.Jeffrey, Long Ripton, Toby Twirl Annual 1949 I Spy Annual, Pirate Map endpapers c1954 I Spy Annual, Pirate Map endpapers c1954 The Wizard of Oz endpapers c1908 The Wizard of Oz endpapers c1908 Paul Brickhill, The Great Escape c1955 Boris Artzybasheff, Funney Bone Alley New York 1927 Chiang Yee, The Silent Traveller in New York 1950 H.Granville Fell, endpaper design 1914, from The Art of the Book, Studio Stuart Chase, Rich Land - Poor Land 1936 (Henry Billings see ) COUNTY OF LONDON PLAN 1943 A PLAN FOR BATH 1945 WHEN WE BUILD AGAIN, BIRMINGHAM 1941 (FRONT AND BACK) BBC YEARBOOK 1932 PASSED FOR PRESS, The association of correctors of the press (London) SOME POST-WAR OFFICE BUILDINGS in the City of London 1957 THE LADYBIRD BOOK OF LONDON, 1961 Peter Sis, Follow that Dream (Columbus) 1991 Mott and Lander, The Story of the British Colonial Empire 1939 HIROSHIGE IN TOKYO, the street map of the city NABOKOV IN AMERICA

 

LINKS   TO E.H.SHEPARD'S ENDPAPERS FOR BEVIS 1932 TO E.H.SHEPARD'S ENDPAPERS FOR THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS TO ARTHUR RANSOME's ENDPAPER MAPS TO THE ATLAS OF EXPERIENCE 2000 TO CLARKE HUTTON'S PICTORIAL HISTORY SERIES LITERARY MAPS TO DALE MAXEY'S endpapers for Seeing London 1966 REEKIE, THESE WERE THE NERVES, 1945