Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet CH (1897 – 1988) was an English writer, best known as an art critic, music critic (his books on Mozart, Liszt, and Domenico Scarlatti are still consulted), and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque. Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell were his older siblings. He described this book as a banquet of the five senses and hopes in this statement of his theme to have achieved a work of literature. And with 8 full-page plates + 16 small engravings in the text The full-page illustrations include two of William Blake’s Surinam engravings.