Title: Shell Houses and Grottoes
Description: "The artificial grotto has a long and intriguing history in architecture and garden design. This book describes the origins of the grotto in Renaissance Italy, its heyday in eighteenth-century England, its decline in the nineteenth century and its return to favour in the twentieth century"--Publlisher's website.
Subjects: Shells, Caves, Grottoes (Garden structures), Cave architecture, Shells in art