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Mazes and labyrinths : a general account of their history and developments (1922)

Matthews, William Henry, 1882- · London ; New York : Longmans, Green and Co., 39 Paternoster Row, London, E.E.4 · leaf 173

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al specimens which are givenin a Dutch book of about half a century later, Neder-lantze Hesperides, by J. Commelyn (1676). It is 107 perhaps as likely, however, that these were intended asdesigns for a hedge maze, or Doolhof, as the Dutchcall it. The box-edged paths of Queen Marys Bower onthe… … Fig. 8o.—Maze Design by J. Commelyn, 1676. a child. The original maze-pattern, if such existed, is lostby reason of the depredations of relic hunters, who formany years laid the bower under contribution and sodenuded it that it had to be entirely replanted some fiftyor sixty years ago. The box…

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