Understanding Maps, 1967

Understanding Maps was the one and only title in series 671 – although it was later moved across to join the later ‘Learnabout’ books, series 634, where it was given the uniform yellow board cover and renamed as ‘Maps’.

It was written by  Nancy Scott and illustrated by Ronald Lampitt.  Lampitt was an inspired choice to illustate this book.  He had worked in Intelligence during the war and, in all probability, it was there that he honed his gift for making topographical images also work as appealing and attractive pictures – easy to ‘read’ by all.

This matt copy is in excellent condition inside and out.  There’s barely any wear and the pages are clean and tight – but for a couple of tiny belemishes on the back I would call it ‘nearly new’.   It dates to the early 1970s and has an original price of 15p on the back.