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THE FASCINATION
OF LONDON
CHELSEA
IN THIS SERIES.
Cloth, price 1s. 6d. net; leather, price 2s. net, each.
CHELSEA.
By G. E. Mitton. Edited by Sir Walter Besant.
WESTMINSTER.
By Sir Walter Besant and G. E. Mitton.
THE STRAND DISTRICT.
By Sir Walter Besant and G. E. Mitton.
HAMPSTEAD.
By G. E. Mitton. Edited by Sir Walter Besant.
CHELSEA OLD CHURCH.
After an etching by Miss E. Piper.
The Fascination of London
CHELSEA
BY
G. E. MITTON
EDITED BY
SIR WALTER BESANT
LONDON
ADAM & CHARLES BLACK
1902
PREFATORY NOTE
A survey of London, a record of the greatest ofall cities, that should preserve her history, herhistorical and literary associations, her mightybuildings, past and present, a book that shouldcomprise all that Londoners love, all that theyought to know of their heritage from the past—thiswas the work on which Sir Walter Besantwas engaged when he died.
As he himself said of it: “This work fascinatesme more than anything else I’ve ever done.Nothing at all like it has ever been attemptedbefore. I’ve been walking about London for thelast thirty years, and I find something fresh in itevery day.”
He had seen one at least of his dreams realizedin th