This beautiful and informative volume, inspired by the pioneering 1907 colour book Cambridge, offers a new way of looking at the townscape and social history of this much-loved English city. Every painting from the original book has been rescanned and enlarged, presenting them as they have not been seen for a hundred years.

Opposite each painting is a page containing related full-colour images, from period maps and postcards to magazine adverts and railway tickets, together with a text placing the painting in its contemporary context.

The new introduction sets the historical scene for a lively town where far-reaching social and economic change sits, often uneasily, alongside centuries of academic and ecclesiastical tradition, at a time when many Edwardians believed that life was about as good as it could ever get.

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77 paintings by William Matthison

Introduction by Mike Petty

Text by Sarah Woodall and Colin Inman

Worth Press Ltd, October 2007

270mm x 245mm

176 pages in full colour

£25

ISBN  978 1 903025 51 2