Hodder and Stoughton 1970 1st edition.. Size 5.5 x 8.75 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Maps on endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Price clipped. Some minor rubbing ends of spine, small faint mark on verso lower edge). Inside a few faint foxing spots on early pages else a clean and tight copy. 215pp. With 39 b/w photo plates and maps and plans. This well-balanced account of how the Dorset landscape came to be as it is, relies mainly on the evidence on the ground, backed up by place-names, the Domesday Book, and other documents, both earlier and later. The result is an exciting total picture which will be widely welcomed by specialist students of environmental studies, as well as by the general reader who loves and wishes to understand his countryside.

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Bookseller: The Antique Map & Bookshop (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 94866
Title: Dorset. The Making of the English Landscape.
Author: TAYLOR, CHRISTOPHER:
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton 1970 1st edition.
Keywords: DORSET TOPOGRAPHY Topography Dorset landscape archaeology history CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR, place-names, Domesday Book, dustwrapper first edition photographs Maps

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The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.

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