Mowl, Timothy, Brian Earnshaw, Brian Earnshaw
Insular Rococo: Architecture, Politics, and Society in Ireland and England 1710-1770
London, Reaktion Books, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Published in First Edition state by Reaktion Books November, London, 1999. According to the publisher's blurb, "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. The authors' controversial claim is that Ireland not only devised its own form of 'insular' Rococo, but exported this mode successfully in a gesture of cultural colonialism to the West of England. Their book shows that the Irish were, far more effectively than the English, participants in the European consensus of the Rococo period. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks." ix + 353 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

Structure, Verses, Agency Books
Professional sellerBook number: 346754
USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.5 | £UK 22.5 | JP¥ 4276]
Keywords: TImothy Mowl|Brian Earnshaw|art history|architecture|Ireland|England