Abbotsford

This work provides a descriptive account of a famed Border estate associated with a celebrated man of letters, tracing the creation of the house, the author's life there, his final decline and funeral, and the later alterations and custodianship. It combines architectural and landscape description with biographical anecdotes about rooms, relics, and nearby abbeys, and offers chaptered narrative supported by illustrations. Readers are guided through the estate's origins, its zenith under the original owner, and subsequent restoration and adaptation by heirs.