Monumental Follies - eccentric edifices of Britain - by Stuart Barton

Monumental Follies: an exposition on the eccentric edifices of Britain
text by Stuart Barton
picture editor Martin Miller
art editor Richard Munday
head of research Mary Hayman
edited by R. A. Curtis

hardcover in good used condition

"There have been an extraordinary number of words written in attempts to define and categorize architectural follies ranging, as they do, from elaborate aviaries to enormous sham castles and taking in towers, columns, reproductions of Greek and Roman temples and amphitheatres, obelisks, summerhouses, castle-sheds, houses, arches, and just about everything else on the way. In making the attempt to define the undefinable, many scholars have tended to overlook the element of eccentricity, which is an integral part of every folly builder's personality. "