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The cottage homes of England (1909)

Dick, Stewart, Allingham, Helen Paterson, 1848-1926 · London, E. Arnold · leaf 240

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with the aforesaid plaster, which,beside the delectable whitenesse of the stuffe it selfe,is laced on so even and smoothlie as nothing, in myjudgement, can be done with more exactnesse. Thewalls of our houses on the inner sides, in like sort,be either hanged with tapesteries, arras worke, orpainted… … AT HAC.r.i ilUXK. I1KKKS. THE STRUCTURE 125 by the rooms are not a little commended, made warmand much more close than otherwise they would be. The stair which leads to the upper rooms was notbuilt in modern form with balustrades until theseventeenth century, the primitive form beingmerely a ladder…

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