LONDON AND ITS ENVIRONS. HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS BY K. BAEDEKER. WITH 3 MAPS AND 15 PLANS. SEVENTH REVISED EDITION. LEIPSIC : KARL BAEDEKER, PUBLISHER. LONDON: DULAU AND CO., 37 SOHO SQUARE, W. 1889. All rights reserved. * 112886.5 JAN 2 1903 From the Library of 'Go, little book, God send thee good passage, 1647 67-104 21 PREFACE. The chief object of the Handbook for London, like that of the Editor's other European and Oriental guide-books, is to enable the traveller so to employ his time, his money, and his energy, that he may derive the greatest possible amount of pleasure and instruction from his visit to the greatest city in the modern world. As several excellent English guide-books to London already existed, the Editor in 1878 published the first English edition of the present Handbook with some hesitation, notwithstanding the encouragement he received from numerous English and American correspondents, who were already familiar with the distinctive characteristics of 'Baedeker's Handbooks'. So favourable a reception, however, was accorded to the first edition that the issue of a second became necessary in little more than a year, while a third, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth, and a seventh have since been called for. The present volume embodies the most recent information, down to the month of July, 1889, obtained in the course of personal visits to the places described, and from the most trustworthy sources. In the preparation of the Handbook the Editor has re-. ceived most material assistance from several English friends who are intimately acquainted with their great Metropolis. His grateful acknowledgments are specially due to the REV. ROBERT GWYNNE, B. A., who has contributed numerous valuable corrections and interesting historical and topographical data. Particular attention has been devoted to the description of the great public collections, such as the National Gallery, the British Museum, and the South Kensington Museum, to all of which the utmost possible space has been allotted. The accounts of the pictures in the National Gallery, Buckingham Palace, Hampton Court, the Dulwich Gallery, and the various private collections, are from the pen of DR. JEAN PAUL RICHTER of Florence. The Introduction, which has purposely been made as comprehensive as possible, is intended to convey all the in |