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Gardens, old and new; the country house & its garden environment (1900)

Leyland, John, 1857?-1924, ed, Tipping, H. Avray (Henry Avray), 1855-1933, ed, Country Life Limited · London, The Offices of "Country life illustrated": George Newnes, Ltd., New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 154

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imposing, and beautiful alike in situation and surroundings,but, like Blenheim, Chatsworth, Kedleston, and many othergreat houses, it is not to be judged by ordinary domestic … THE FIRST TERRACE, LOOKIiNG NORTH. standards. It was built in the eighteenthcentury, and was considerably alteredin the middle of the nineteenth; butthere had been an older house on thespot, around which many interests hadcentred. There had, in fact, been tv\-ogreat dwelling-places here, one being…

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