Publisher's Synopsis
This work, in two volumes, provides details of all persons who measured and made large-scale local maps in Great Britain or Ireland between 1530 and 1850. The first volume discusses the history of the surveying profession based on an analysis of the mapmakers in the dictionary, together with lists of sources and comprehensive indexes. The second volume contains the biographical entries for each surveyor.;This revised edition increases the number of surveyors by almost 50% to nearly 14,000, with the starting date two decades earlier to incorporate local military surveyors who practised in the 1530s and whose importance is being recognized by scholars. Bibliographical references have been added, and organizational and stylistic changes made.
