Stonehenge / Rosemary Hill
2008, First Edition. London : Profile Books. Near fine cloth copy in a near fine, faintly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Half-title leaf faintly foxed. Remains well-preserved overall, with core text tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #457115
ISBN: 1847650759
Physical description; 242 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; A very short pre-history -- Contending with oblivion : the antiquaries -- Art, order, proportion : the architects -- "Cold stony horror" : the romantics -- The age of Darwin : in which "everything is explained by geology and astronomy" -- Archaeology and the age of aquarius -- The new millennium. Subjects; Stonehenge (England) - History, Stonehenge (England) - Historiography, Megalithic monuments - England - Wiltshire.
Price: €10.95