Note 280 — A BOOK FOR A RAINY DAY (continued 2)

James Gubbins was a subscriber to Smith’s Remarks on Rural Scenery (1797), a volume of etchings of cottage and rural scenes around London. One of its drawings represents a squatter’s shanty in Epping Forest, bowered in trees, and is entitled “Lady Plomer’s Palace on the summit of Hawke’s Hill Wood, Epping Forest.”