Sir George Fordham was born in 1859 and produced many publications describingthe maps and road books of the British Isles and France and donated his personal road book collection to the Royal Geographical Society. The Society triennially awards the Sir George Fordham Award for Cartobibliography, a 'term introduced by him forthe cataloguing of maps on systematic plan'. This useful cartography covers the following: --British and Irish Itineraries and road books. --Descriptive List of the Maps of the Great Level of the Fens 1604-100 --John Cary, Engraver, Map-Seller --An Itinerary of the sixteenth Century: La Guide des Chemins d'Angleterre --A Bibliography of Works of Reference relating to British and French Topography and Cartography --An Introduction to the Study of the Cartography of the English and Welsh Counties --Index list of maps of Hertfordshire, 1579-1900
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