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

Matthews, William Henry, 1882- · London, New York, etc. Longmans, Green · leaf 165

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y-out ofgardens, including no less than nine in the form of laby-rinths. Some of the latter are designated by titles of adescriptive or of a quasi-classic character, La Roue,Ionica, Corinthia, and so forth. We reproduce a fewof these designs in Figs. 72, 73 and 74. Several otherhorticultural or… … 102 flower-bed labyrinths that we have just mentioned. Insome instances, where the beds were occupied by shrubs,we have a sort of link between the garden labyrinth andthe hedge maze proper. An illustration in a book of 1573on the gardens of the Villa dEste at Tivoli, dedicatedto Catherine de Medici…

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