In the following pages I have endeavoured to provide, for one shilling, the most attractive and useful Handbook to London, which, after many years of labour and consideration, I could compress within a necessarily limited space. If it be compared with similar Handbooks, I think it may be found to possess some advantages over them. If, without comparison, it be accepted upon its own merits, I shall be the more fortunate and gratified.<br><br>I have to express my thanks to Mr. Sulman for having successfully carried out my plan for the illustrations, which, being original, I hereby notify my intention to protect from piracy as far as I am able.<br><br>I hope to publish a new edition of this book annually - as I do of the 'Royal Guide to the London Charities' - I therefore expect to have the opportunity of adding to, and improving hereafter, what I have herein written; and, with that view, I shall esteem it a great favour if any kind reader will forward to me, at the publishers', any data or corrections for future editions.