This 1896 volume offers the British Museum curator's scholarly examination of London's eighteenth-century pleasure gardens.

Summers at the Vauxhall pleasure garden in London brought diverse entertainments to a diverse public. Picturesque walks and arbors offered a pastoral retreat fr

This 1896 volume offers the British Museum curator's scholarly examination of London's eighteenth-century pleasure gardens.

Presents a history of the Vauxhall Gardens, which rose from humble beginnings to become a fixture in the cutural and fashionable life of English society until i

The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and