Old Chelsea: A Summer-Day's Stroll

by Benjamin Ellis Martin

Transcribed from the 1889 T. Fisher Unwin edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

OLD CHELSEA
A SUMMER-DAY’S STROLL

BY
BENJAMIN ELLIS MARTIN

ILLUSTRATED BY JOSEPH PENNELL

London
T FISHER UNWIN
26 Paternoster Square
1889

NOTE.

The stroll described in these pages may be imagined to be taken during the summer of 1888: all the dates, descriptions, and references herein having been brought down to the present moment.

The specimen of Old Chelsea ware on the cover is an accurate copy—reduced in size, naturally—of one of the plates of the set belonging once to Dr. Johnson, now in Holland House. For the privilege of this unique reproduction I am indebted to the courtesy of Lady Holland.