The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 454
er, which must else be brought throughthe back staircase, corridor, and lobby. What, therefore, is lost as tosize is amply made up by increased convenience, and also by variety,becausa, instead of being merely a duplicate of the drawing-room inits plan, it assumes a very different character; and… … 40 sufficient for the accommodation of a comfortable dinner party. Thesideboard alcove is divided from the staircase behind it by a partitioncarried up about seven feet from the floor, or half the height of theroom, forming a screen, surmounted either by dwarf columns or cary-atides. Behind this…
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