The English landscape garden of the 18th century was the stylistic lead that continental Europe was eager to follow. Was this a natural evolution or a chain of polite but absolute revolutions? This reappraisal of the great age of the English Arcadia reveals how an interaction of amateur and professional gardeners resulted in a host of lesser Edens.

Product Description: This work provides an authoritative and accessible guide to the historic gardens of Dorset, from the exquisite manor houses of the 16th and 17th centuries to the inspired creations of the 20th century. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: From the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558 to the death of James I in 1625, a delayed renaissance swept England, pervading the domestic architecture and interiors of the day and signalling the emergence of a peculiarly English form of architecture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This book traces the development of garden style through the owners who projected them and the gardeners who worked them.

Product Description: Between 1710 and 1770, the inventive, ornate Rococo style should, in the natural course of events, have been Britain's prevailing decorative style. This is the first book to describe and explain its oddly frustrated course in England and, in vivid contrast, its brilliant flourishing in Ireland...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this study of Horace Walpole, the author portrays a picture of his life and motivation. It shows that despite Horace's connection, Walpole was a sexual and social outsider whose talents as intriguer and publicist were used to serve his own agenda.

Product Description: This illustrated book provides a complete assessment of the architecture of Cromwell's England. Key to the puritan minimalist classicism of the time was the work of Inigo Jones, and this book provides a controversial reassessment not only of Jones himself but of his apprentice, John Webb...read more