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Shell Houses and Grottoes


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Shell Houses and Grottoes

Contributors:

By (Author) Hazelle Jackson

ISBN:

9780747805229

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Shire Publications

Publication Date:

1st August 2001

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Gardening

Dewey:

717

Physical Properties

Number of Pages:

40

Dimensions:

Width 149mm, Height 210mm, Spine 6mm

Weight:

120g

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.

Author Bio

Hazelle Jackson is a social history graduate with a life-long inerest in subterranean dwellings and man-made caves. She has travelled to the remoter parts of the British Isles to seek out and record the history of shell houses and grottoes. She is a member of the Outdoor Writers Guild and the Folly Fellowship.

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