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Title: Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater
The Fascination of London

Author: Geraldine Edith Mitton

Editor: Sir Walter Besant

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The Fascination of London

MAYFAIR, BELGRAVIA, AND BAYSWATER

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_IN THIS SERIES._

Cloth, price 1s. 6d. net; leather, price 2s. net each.

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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[Illustration: HYDE PARK CORNER]

The Fascination of London

MAYFAIR, BELGRAVIA AND BAYSWATER

by

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