Pollen, John Hungerford, 1820-1902 · [London] Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education, by Chapman and Hall · leaf 113
FURNITURE. ioi in 1667, the inside all of looking-glass, and fountains, very pleasant to behold. It stands in the middle of the garden covered with Cornish slate, on the point whereof he placed a Punchinello.” At about the same period the house of Nell Gwynne, “ the first good one as we enter St.… … Pall Mall, had the back room on the ground floor entirely lined with looking-glass within memory,” writes Pennant, “ as was said to have been the ceiling.” “ La rue St. Andre-des-arts,” says Savarin, speaking of Paris in the seventeenth century, “ eut le premier cafe orne de glaces et de tables de…
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