Orpington, a village of Kent, England, 12 miles by rail SE. of London, where Ruskin's books began to be published in 1873 (see E. T. Cook, Studies in Ruskin, 1890). Pop. 3090.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 648
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