Surveying the surveyors: Richard Thornton and his publishers.
Richard Thornton produced two outstanding large-scale plans of Manchester as the pinnacle of his work as a map surveyor. Yet, like the vast majority of nineteenth-century surveyors, little is known about him. This reflects the fact that most private surveyors were held in very low esteem, although t...
| Publicado en: | Northern History Vol. 56; no. 1/2; pp. 97 - 117 |
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