London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 42
providing a small passage and lobby (a),which would afford access to most of the rooms, without makingany one of them a thoroughfare. Were nothing else obtainedby this change than such an inner vestibule, even that alonewould be an advantage, as the dining-room would no longeropen immediately upon… … made entirely independent of any other; instead of five doors,has only two, one of which might be dispensed with ; yet, as insuch case there would require to be a sham door, to correspondwith that on the other side of the sideboard, advantaffe is takenof this circumstance to place a closet in that…
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