Transcribed from the 1889 T. Fisher Unwin edition by DavidPrice,
OLD CHELSEA
A SUMMER-DAY’SSTROLL
BY
BENJAMIN ELLIS MARTIN
ILLUSTRATEDBY JOSEPH PENNELL
London
T FISHER UNWIN
26 Paternoster Square
1889
p.7NOTE.
The stroll described in these pagesmay be imagined to be taken during the summer of 1888: all thedates, descriptions, and references herein having been broughtdown to the present moment.
The specimen of Old Chelsea ware on the cover is an accuratecopy—reduced in size, naturally—of one of the platesof the set belonging once to Dr. Johnson, now in HollandHouse. For the privilege of this unique reproduction I amindebted to the courtesy of Lady Holland.
B. E. M.
London, August, 1888
p. 9LIST OFILLUSTRATIONS.
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STATUE OF THOMAS CARLYLE, BYBOEHM | Frontispiece |
THE EMBANKMENT MANSIONS FROMBATTERSEA | |
A VIEW OF CHELSEA | |
STEAMBOAT PIER AT OLD BATTERSEABRIDGE, AND THE RIVER FRONT, TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO | |
THE EMBANKMENT AND OLD BATTERSEABRIDGE | |
MAP OF CHELSEA | |
THE HOUSES AT CHELSEA | |
LINDSEY HOUSE AND BATTERSEABRIDGE | |
SANDFORD MANOR HOUSE, SAND’SEND | |
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