Shell Houses and Grottoes (Shire Library)

by Hazelle Jackson

Paperback, 2008

Status

Available

Call number

712

Collection

Publication

Shire (2008), Paperback, 40 pages

Description

The artificial grotto has a long and intriguing history in architecture and garden design. This book describes the origins of the grotto in Renaissance Italy, its heyday in eighteenth-century England, its decline in the nineteenth century and its return to favour in the twentieth century.

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Physical description

40 p.

ISBN

0747805229 / 9780747805229
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