AN INSULAR ROCOCCO: ARCHITECTURE, POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN IRELAND AND ENGLAND, 1710 - 1770

First published in 1999 by Reaktion Books Ltd, London. Hardcover in fine condition. Original publisher's olive green cloth boards with gilt spine printing. Boards with negligible bumping along spine edges due to shelfwear. Contents are complete, tight, clean, crisp and free from annotations, inscriptions or creases. Dust jacket in very good condition, lightly internal edgecreasing and dust spotting. Between 1710 and 1770, the Rococo style should, in the normal course of events, have been Britain's prevailing decorative style, at once inventive, ornate, elegant and playful. This is the first book to describe and explain its oddly frustrated course in England and, in vivid contrast, its brilliant flourishing in Ireland". Additional shipping fee may be requested from international orders.