Gothic : Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin --illustrated by Davenport-Hines, Richard - 1999

New York: North Point Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1999. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Red cloth with gilt on spine, tight clean and square, headband, 438 pages, illustrated through-out in b & w, with 8 pages of colour plates, dust jacket has minor edge wear. "Richard Davenport-Hines traces the potent creative impulse of the gothic imagination from its modern origins in the seventeenth century to the present day. Gothic is about exaggeration; about stepping beyond limits and securities into the immoderate. Gothic is a book about painters, gardeners, architects, poets, novelists, photographers, film-makers, musicians and clothes designers." Contents include: Prologue / The Spectre Still Will Haunt Us / Stark Mad With Gardens / The Strength of Backward-Looking Thoughts / They Are Come to Tear Me to Pieces / The Dead Have Exhausted Their Power of Deceiving / A Race of Devils / Wild Passion for Wounding / This Man Belongs to Me I Want Him / Family Evil / We'd Rather Have the Iceberg than the Ship / Wild Mood Swings / Sources / index. Check out the scans... First North Point Press . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.