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 97
sidesembellishing the drawing-room. We must now pass on to the famous Sir George Vernon,the bluff King of the Peak, who was his grandson or great-grandson. Sir George was a man of much wealth, and hisvast hospitality became proverbial, and made him one of themost popular men of his time. He raised… … THE ANCIBNT AVENUE. as ever 1 may do for you, wrote Warwick to him in March,1471, and he added : Yonder man Edward, lately landed inthe North, was fast making his way South with Flemings,Easterlings, and Danes ; and Henry Vernon of Haddon wasto march to Coventry in all haste possible, as my…
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