From the publisher who bought us Cathryn Spence’s gorgeous Nature’s Favourite Child: Thomas Robins and the Art of the Georgian Garden, a new edition of the fascinating book on the architect of Georgian Bath, who was more interested in Stonehenge, druids and Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem than Augustan design principles.
Architect of Obsession: John Wood and the Creation of Georgian Bath
£37.00
Edition:Hardback978183847268931/05/2022From a Bookshelf nearby
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Published by Yale, this is a fascinating and original exploration of the influence of the newly popular guitar on the Romantics and on culture in the early C19th.
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As entertaining as it is fascinating: it turns out the poet's ancestors were quite an act to follow. (He did!)
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A new edition of this pioneering account of England's large black community in the C18th - from freed slaves to prosperous citizens. (First published 1995.)
Black England: A Forgotten Georgian History
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A compelling portrait of the writer and her engagement with her own world. Constructed as a series of essays on art, memory, painting, rank, property, appearance, etc., this is immensely rea... read more