Part 1

The Fascination of London

MAYFAIR, BELGRAVIA, AND BAYSWATER

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IN THIS SERIES.

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THE STRAND DISTRICT.

By SIR WALTER BESANT and G. E. MITTON.

WESTMINSTER.

By SIR WALTER BESANT and G. E. MITTON.

HAMPSTEAD AND MARYLEBONE.

By G. E. MITTON. Edited by SIR WALTER BESANT.

CHELSEA.

By G. E. MITTON. Edited by SIR WALTER BESANT.

KENSINGTON.

By G. E. MITTON. Edited by SIR WALTER BESANT.

HOLBORN AND BLOOMSBURY.

By SIR WALTER BESANT and G. E. MITTON.

HAMMERSMITH, FULHAM, AND PUTNEY.

By G. E. MITTON and J. C. GEIKIE.

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The Fascination of London

MAYFAIR, BELGRAVIA AND BAYSWATER

G. E. MITTON AND OTHERS

Edited by Sir Walter Besant

London Adam & Charles Black 1903

PREFATORY NOTE

A survey of London, a record of the greatest of all cities, that should preserve her history, her historical and literary associations, her mighty buildings, past and present, a book that should comprise all that Londoners love, all that they ought to know of their heritage from the past--this was the work on which Sir Walter Besant was engaged when he died.

As he himself said of it: "This work fascinates me more than anything else I've ever done. Nothing at all like it has ever been attempted before. I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day."