- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: Laurence King; illustrated edition edition (11 Jun 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1856692418
- ISBN-13: 978-1856692410
- Product Dimensions: 24.6 x 18.4 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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- #70 in Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > Graphic Arts > Posters
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A Wealth of evocative posters and photographs throughout --World of Interiors
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lavishly illustrated with photographs, maps, posters and logos, and the book has been extensively indexed.
........ informative enough to reward the true obsessive........
........ informative enough to reward the true obsessive........
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The growth of London over the last two hundred years has been closely linked with the expansion of public transport services. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
The growth of London over the last two hundred years has been closely linked with the expansion of public transport services. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
This is a bit of a 'coffee table' book rather than a comprehensive narrative history of London's transport. Nice pictures, on good quality paper, but not much 'meat' or information.
Though good on buses, trams and the Underground, the book's biggest flaw seems to me the almost total lack of any mention of the role of the 'main line' railways, which formed a major part of suburban transport, particularly in South and East London. To take an example, in the whole 400 pages there is, I think, only one, very early, picture of a Southern Electric, trains which were responsible over almost a century for moving millions of people to and around London (and still do).
The maps in the book, which could have provided much information on the history of the growth of transport coverage, are reproduced at too small a scale to be easily interpreted. Also, there seems to be too much emphasis on pictures of leaflets and posters. The earliest of these may be of historical interest, and the later ones may be excellent examples of commercial art, but they are surely of only peripheral interest to the history of transport itself.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Anyone living in Lodon knows how important London Transport is in getting about the city and this book celebrates the ups and downs of the company in 1200 (mostly colour) photos, illustrations, diagrams and maps all with excellent long captions. Browsing through the pages I realised what visionary people ran the company in the first half of the past century. The chapter dealing with the Second World War has some fascinating photos of how the Company managed in this difficult period, one shows aircract components made in one of the tunnels. If I have a criticism it is that the thirty or so route maps are too small. Design and production is excellent. The world famous Underground map is mentioned but if you want to know more about it have a look at 'Mr Beck's Underground Map' by Ken Garland, a lovely book published in 1994 with everything you'll ever need to know about Harry Beck's graphic masterpiece.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
If it's a detailed London Transport history you want, or a techical guide to tube trains, then there are other books out there to explore. If however you're more into a lighter (although very informative) amount of text but enjoy gazing in wonder at a vast collection of visual memorabillia connected with London Transport (mostly the underground but loads on buses too) then I can't think of a more suitable book. There's a fair amount of text but it's swamped by the sheer amount of visuals, all with captions, which glide you through the book in nice little soundbytes. Programmes, posters, maps, illustrations, masses of colour throughout, this is a thoroughly well put together book, tracing the history from the dawning of the first transport system through to the modern day. Hard to put down, and definitely a "feel good" book, this pocket museum is worth every penny.
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