xxvi 293 pages. The cover's edges are lightly bumped and the preliminaries and back end paper suffer from insect damage at the tail's outer edge. Overall a clean, unmarked and solid copy. 'With a fresh point of view,' Architecture in the Age of Reason: Baroque and Post Baroque in England Italy France' presents new and rare material on architectural developments in England, France, and Italy during the eighteenth century, revealing how the trends in design were related to the everyday and earth-shattering events of the century. In presenting a thorough revaluation of the Post-Baroque style, the author interprets formal changes as the visual expression of the spiritual tendencies of that epoch.' (Publisher)