By Roger White
Yale University Press £40
This book has an impeccable provenance and has been long in the making.
The author reveals that his thoughts were first turned to it by reading Barbara Jones's Follies and Grottoes in the mid-1970s – a charming book, written by an artist, which remained the principal work on the subject for many years.
In 1987, he organised an exhibition for the Georgian Group, bearing the same title as this book. It
