. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . he east end of this cor-ridor is the ante-Library, com-municating, to right, with theGreen Library, to left with theRed ; and the homeliness ofLongleat is well exemplified inboth. In the Green Library,for example, are all four earliest editions of Shakespeare ; anearly black-letter Chaucer (whose first editor was WilliamThynne, uncle to the builder) ; a folio edition of DiogenesLaertius, with a sentence on the first page in Kens writing;Halsteads Genealogies; a Thealma, with Isaak Waltons auto-graph ; a Graftons Bible (1S41)—a royal gift

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. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . he east end of this cor-ridor is the ante-Library, com-municating, to right, with theGreen Library, to left with theRed ; and the homeliness ofLongleat is well exemplified inboth. In the Green Library,for example, are all four earliest editions of Shakespeare ; anearly black-letter Chaucer (whose first editor was WilliamThynne, uncle to the builder) ; a folio edition of DiogenesLaertius, with a sentence on the first page in Kens writing;Halsteads Genealogies; a Thealma, with Isaak Waltons auto-graph ; a Graftons Bible (1S41)—a royal gift to Sir John ; fineeditions of the classics ; and a good deal of other literaturebesides. And above the shelves hang some of the early his-torical portraits, such as Henry VIII., the Protector, and ThomasSeymour (all by Holbein) ; Wriothesley, Sackville, Lucius Carey(by Van Dyck), etc. Yet there is nothing whatever of the dryorder of things about the well-shapen, two-bayed room ; on thecontrary, a billiard-table and a stand of cues boldly beguile the. LADY LOUISA CARTERET

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