Preface
Sir Nicholas Penny

Acknowledgements
Map: Locations of the Principal Georgian London town houses Discussed
in this book
List of illustrations

Introduction
Kate Retford

Part One: Architecture, Furnishing, Decorating
1. A House Divided: Building Biographies and the Town House in Georgian London, Matthew Jenkins and Charlotte Newman
2. 'You never saw such a scene of magnificence and taste': Norfolk House after its Grand Reopening in 1756, Jeremy Howard
3. The Refurbishment of Northumberland House: Craftsmen and Interior Decoration in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London Town Houses, Adriano Aymonino and Manolo Guerci
4. Town and Country: The Spencers of Althorp, Joseph Friedman
5. The Regency Transformation of Burlington House, Piccadilly: The Architectural Drawings of Samuel Ware in the Royal Academy of Arts, Neil Bingham

Part Two: Buying, Collecting, Display
6. The Display and Reception of Private Picture Collections in London Town Houses, 1780-1830, Susannah Homer
7. Superb Cabinets or Splendid Anachronisms? Anatomy, Natural History and Fine Arts in the London Town House, Helen McCormack
8. Artist in Residence: Joshua Reynolds at No 47, Leicester Fields, Donato Esposito
9. The Pictures at Carlton House, Desmond Shawe Taylor
10. Glitter and fashion in the 'Louvre of London': Animating Cleveland House, Anne Nellis Richter
11. John Julius Angerstein and the Development of his Art Collection at No 100, Pall Mall, London, Susanna Avery-Quash

Afterword
Joseph Friedman and Susanna Avery-Quash

Select Bibliography
Picture credits
Index