xxxii 425 pages, indexed, plus 120 black and white plates. Overseas customers please note the book weighs over a kilo and will attract additional postage. the jacket has a short split at the head of the head's outer edge, else clean, solid and unmarked apart from an ownership signature (Patrick McCaughey) on the front end paper. CONTENTS: Part I: The age of Burlington, 1714-1753 1. The Palladian revivial and the rule of taste 2. The creation of the landscape garden 3. The survival of the baroque in architecture 4. The hierarchy of categories in painting Part II: The impact of the rococo, c. 1740-1760 5. The impact of the rococo, c. 1740-1760, the ornamental sytles: chinoiserie and the gothick taste 6. Hogarth, Roubiliac, and their contemporaries Part III: The age of Reynolds 7. The elevation of portrait and landscape: Reynolds, Gainsborough, and Wilson 8. The Royal Academy and the great style 9. The era of exhibitions and the elevation of genre 10. The pioneers of neo-classicism in architecture: Stuart, Chambers, and Adam Part IV: The industrial revolution and the provincial enlightenment 11. The expansion of neo-classicism 12. The picturesque and the transition to romanticism.