Arcadia: England and the Dream of Perfection

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2009.* Publisher: Harper Perennial.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing landscape with Cephala and Procris by Claude. No bumps or rubs, shelf wear or reading creases to spine, slight corner crease to back board, none to hinge. Seems lightly used. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or marks to text. No tanning, minimal age colouration to page edges. Slight distortion to plates. No other visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: two x 8pp blocks of col & b/w photos. * Pages: 263 pp. text. xxiii pp. bibliography, index & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- Was our country once a better place? Has modernisation destroyed as much as it has improved? And can we see in an earlier Britain a way of living, an Arcadia, which now seems both ideal and remote? In 16th and 17th century England the changes of an approaching modernity accelerated ? the new mercantile, individualist world increasingly clashed with the communal and chivalric ideals of the old. To tell this story from the 1520's to the 1640's, Adam Nicolson takes a single great family. The Earls of Pembroke, their wives, children, estates, tenants and allies, and follows their high and glamorous trajectory across three generations of change, nostalgia, ambition, resistance and war.* This is a NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st./1st. with minimal age and wear reducing it to VG++.*