Shell Houses and Grottoes
By (Author) Hazelle Jackson
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Shire Publications
1st August 2001
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Gardening
717
40
Width 149mm, Height 210mm, Spine 6mm
120g
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.
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.