PREFACE TO THE ILLUSTRATED (FOURTH) EDITION. 



volume preceding page 313' are from drawings by 

 Birket Foster. 



The woodbury-type frontispiece, and the 

 three other woodbury-type * illustrations of the 

 Chapter ' Down a Green Lane/ in Part I., are 

 reduced from the negatives of photographs 

 taken for the Author by Messrs. Brinley and 

 Son, of Totnes. It may be mentioned here, 

 that the descriptions in the Chapter ' Down a 

 Green Lane ' were written, verbatim, in the lane 

 described, and the Author's impressions were 

 penned under the sheltering canopy of over- 

 arching trees and shrubs, and under the stimu- 

 lating influence of the golden gleams of sunlight 

 which found their way on to his manuscript 

 through the interstices in the clustering leaves 

 of the embowering branches. It is probable that 

 for the reasons stated in the chapter itself, few 

 people had discovered this charming green lane 

 until the description in this volume called atten- 

 tion to it. The photographer who accompanied 



* Now changed to photo-process engravings. 



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