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Wolsey, Cardinal, 82 Worlidge, Thomas, 12 Wormholt Barns, 30 Wormwood Scrubs, 31 Wren, Sir Christopher, 61 THE END BILLING AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, GUILDFORD * * * * * Transcriber's Notes The following errors in the original text have been corrected: Page 4: Charity Commissoners changed to Charity Commissioners Page 21: stuccoed bnilding changed to stuccoed building Page 43: to build almhouses changed to to build almshouses Index: Page number for entry "Ekins, Dr." added. The inconsistent hyphenation of "needle work" and "needle-work" and "Bulwer Lytton" and "Bulwer-Lytton" has been left as per the original. The use of "Moulinere House" in the main text and "Mouliniere House" in the index has also been left unchanged. * * * * * THE FASCINATION OF LONDON SERIES. _Cloth, price 1/6 net; leather, price 2/- net each._ VOLUMES ALREADY PUBLISHED: THE STRAND. 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. Edited by SIR WALTER BESANT. Each containing Frontispiece and Map of District. MAYFAIR AND BAYSWATER. [_In the press._ A. AND C. BLACK 4 SOHO SQUARE LONDON W. * * * * * Demy 4to., cloth. Price 30/- net. Gilt top. LONDON IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. By SIR WALTER BESANT. With many Illustrations from Contemporary Prints and a Map. Some Press Opinions. "To praise this book were superfluous. Sir Walter was ideally suited for the task which he set himself. He was an antiquarian, but not a Dryasdust; he had the topographical sense, but he spared us measurements; he was pleasantly discursive; if he moralized he was never tedious; he had the novelist's eye for the romantic. Above all, he loved and reverenced London. Though only a Londoner by adoption, he bestowed upon the capital a more than filial regard. Besant is the nineteenth-century Stow and something more.... This remarkable volume."--_Daily Telegraph._ "Turn where you will in his pages yo
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