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Warblers, wagtails, petrels, sandpipers and skuas from the Morris bird plates of 1865 bring Victorian natural history into t...

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Warblers, wagtails, petrels, sandpipers and skuas from the Morris bird plates of 1865 bring Victorian natural history into this collection of maps and prints of the United Kingdom. The plates preserve the names and classifications used by Victorian publishers, a kind of detail no political or physical map can give. The maps run from earlier centuries to the twentieth, tracing the changing depiction of the country beside its illustrated birds.

Warblers, wagtails, petrels, sandpipers and skuas from the Morris bird plates of 1865 bring Victorian natural history into this collection of maps and prints of the United Kingdom. The plates preserve the names and classifications used by Victorian publishers, a kind of detail no political or physical map can give. The maps run from earlier centuries to the twentieth, tracing the changing depiction of the country beside its illustrated birds.

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