June 13, 2022

A New Essay

June 13, 2022/ Matthew Edney

Want to know more about how, and why, map historians have made facsimiles in the modern era? And the tension between mediated and photographic reproduction techniques? Not to mention color vs monochrome? And why “lithographic engraving” is not really engraving?

Well, wait no longer — go read my new essay

Edney, Matthew H. 2022. “The Copy: Printing Processes and the Reproduction of Early Maps, 1830–1945.” Portolan 113: 48–63.

Don’t get The Portolan? Then join the Washington Map Society and get it on subscription! (I’ll add a PDF to this site soon enough.)

Mapping as Process

Mapping as Process is a space for me to explore a new approach to understanding mapping and its history. The exploration will eventually contribute to a book of the same name.

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The books …

Cartography in the European Enlightenment, Volume Four of The History of Cartography, edited by myself and Mary Pedley. Available from the University of Chicago Press, in print and ebook ($500).

Available from the University of Chicago Press in paperback ($30), e-book ($10–30), or cloth ($90).

Some paperback ($38) copies are still available, as well as the ebook, from the University of Chicago Press.