Unruly Folded Sheets

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The Ordnance Survey maps in the house when I was growing up had orange bands at the top and bottom of the covers, like my parents’ 1950s Penguin paperbacks. The maps themselves were printed on creamy, beautifully smooth paper, lettered in various sizes of various fonts.

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