PREFACE TO THE ILLUSTRATED (FOURTH) EDITION. 
volume preceding page 1 1 3 are from drawings by 
Birket Foster. 
The woodbury-type frontispiece, and the 
three other woodbury-type * illustrations of the 
Chapter 4 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 4 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-prccess engravings. 
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