Eye-Catchers
Peter Campbell, 4 December 1986
Survey of London: Vol. XLII. Southern Kensington: Kensington to Earls Court
Athlone, 502 pp., £55, May 1986,0 485 48242 8 Show More
Athlone, 502 pp., £55, May 1986,
Follies: A National Trust Guide
by Gwyn Headley and Wim Meulenkamp.
Cape, 564 pp., £15, June 1986,0 224 02105 2 Show More
by Gwyn Headley and Wim Meulenkamp.
Cape, 564 pp., £15, June 1986,
The Botanists
by David Elliston Allen.
St Paul’s Bibliographies, 232 pp., £15, May 1986,0 906795 36 2 Show More
by David Elliston Allen.
St Paul’s Bibliographies, 232 pp., £15, May 1986,
British Art since 1900
by Frances Spalding.
Thames and Hudson, 252 pp., £10.50, April 1986,0 500 23457 4 Show More
by Frances Spalding.
Thames and Hudson, 252 pp., £10.50, April 1986,
Paintings from Books: Art and Literature in Britain, 1760-1900
by Richard Altick.
Ohio State, 527 pp., £55, March 1986,0 8142 0380 9 Show More
by Richard Altick.
Ohio State, 527 pp., £55, March 1986,
History of the British Pig
by John Wiseman.
Duckworth, 118 pp., £12.95, May 1986,9780715619872 Show More
by John Wiseman.
Duckworth, 118 pp., £12.95, May 1986,
“... Hagley Park) and Temple Bar (in its present situation in a Hertfordshire wood) are all follies by Headley’s and Meulencamp’s definition. The first, like many of their eye-catchers and shams, is not quite what it seems; the second was a plaything, although also a try-out for the big architecture of the next generation; the third is merely foolish through ... ”
