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<p class="MsoNormal">I have the very sad duty of reporting the death last weekend, following a heart attack, of Ralph Hyde, the former keeper of prints, maps and drawings at Guildhall Library, London.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ralph will be best known to map historians as the author of the standard work, <i>Printed Maps of Victorian London
</i> (1975), and many other books and articles on historic maps of London, often published under the auspices of Harry Margary and the London Topographical Society , including
<i>Ward Maps of the City of London </i> (1999). He was also probably the world’s leading expert on panoramas and related phenomena such as peepshows – his
<i>book <span class="a-size-large1"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Paper Peepshows: The Jacqueline & Jonathan Gestetner Collection
</span></span></i><span class="a-size-large1"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">was published in March 2015 and he had fresh projects in mind. A revised version of his hitherto unpublished catalogue of parish maps of London is in the early
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="a-size-large1"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Ralph’s erudition and boundless enthusiasm, his cheerfulness and kindness will be recalled by his many friends and missed in equal measure.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="a-size-large1"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Peter Barber</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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