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Plate XXVIII.— ^latt Of tl)f (©i'aitJJC — Pursuing the originaldesign of this Volume, namely, to adapt the ancient style of English architecture to modern habitations, the disposition of the rooms, in everyPlan, is more in accordance with the modes of living now established,than with the habits of earlier times. Yet, for the last three centuries,the ordinary apartments seem to have been similar, though known bydifferent denominations. The dressing-room, an appendage to the chiefbed-chambers in all well-arranged modern mansions, is not a refine-ment of the present age; for we find the inventories and descriptionsof old houses constantly mentioning an “ inner chamber” to mostof the principal bed-chambers; and in the Northumberland House-hold-Book, such an apartment is clearly referred to as “ the chambrewher my lorde makes him redy.” In Verulam House there were twobathing-rooms; and at Windsor Castle , Hentzner tells us, thatQueen Elizabeth had two bathing-rooms “ ceiled and wainscottedwith glass.”

The Smoking-room, which followed the introduction of tobacco, andthe Powdering-room, a still later introduction, have for some time falleninto disuse; but a necessity for the former appears to be reviving, and isindeed adopted in several newly erected country-houses, by which aloneit comes within the pale of this Work.

Pl ate XXIX. — d^ntSDltntdl C'l} tntltCP'ri^l)(lf —No apology isnecessary for occupying another Plate with these highly decorativeobjects—indeed, it becomes more than ever requisite to diffuse as muchas possible a knowledge of all their varieties, since spurious imitations areappearing in the shops of artificial stone manufacturers, calculated, from