The Follies and Garden Buildings of Ireland

This entertaining and lovely book-the first to focus solely on follies and other garden buildings in Ireland-re-creates in word and image the wonder of these picturesque and fanciful architectural oddities. "A work of sustained scholarship and relish for the subject."-Patricia Craig, Times Literary Supplement "A feast of ephemeral architectural embellishment."-House and Garden "[A] pioneering book. . . . It is beautifully designed and the well researched text is accompanied by excellent measured drawings and wonderful photographs. The volume is a delight to peruse, a veritable encyclopedia of the extraordinary and the fantastic."-Roger Stalley, The Irish Times "A major achievement."-Deborah Singmaster, Architects' Journal