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| The Old School-house, Marylehone |
Frontispiece
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| Millbank, about 1800 |
6 |
| The Old Horseferry, about 1800 |
7 |
| The Grey-coat School |
12 |
| The "Five Houses," in 1796 |
13 |
| Milton's House |
18 |
| The Old "Cock" Tavern |
19 |
| Van Dun's Almshouses, 1820 |
24 |
| Wenceslaus Hollar |
25 |
| The Buxton Drinking Fountain |
30 |
| House in Westminster, said to have been occupied by Oliver Cromwell |
31 |
| Judge Jeffreys' House in Duke Street |
36 |
| Colonel Blood's House |
37 |
| Palmer's Almshouses, 1840 |
42 |
| Storey's Gate, St. James's Park, in 1820 |
43 |
| Westminster Abbey from St. James's Park (about 1740) |
48 |
| "Rosamond's Pond," in 1758 |
49 |
| Plan of St. James's Palace and Park, in the Time of Charles II. |
54 |
| Two Old Views in St. James's Park, about 1680 |
55 |
| The India Foreign Office, from St. James's Park |
60 |
| Arlington House, 1700 |
61 |
| The King's Library, Buckingham House, 1775 |
66 |
| Buckingham House in 1775 |
67 |
| The Throne-room, Buckingham Palace |
72 |
| Buckingham Palace: Garden Front |
73 |
| Pall Mall Implements |
75 |
| Playing at Pall Mall |
78 |
| The Mall in 1450 |
79 |
| Milk Fair, St. James's Park |
84 |
| Warwick House, about 1810 |
85 |
| Grand Staircase in Carlton House, 1820 |
90 |
| Front of Carlton House, 1820 |
91 |
| Old Carlton House, 1709 |
96 |
| Beau Brummell |
97 |
| Chapel Royal, St. James's |
102 |
| View of St. James's Palace, Time of Queen Anne |
103 |
| Council Chamber, St. James's Palace, 1840 |
108 |
| Court-yard of St. James's Palace, 1875 |
109 |
| Ambassadors' Court, St. James's Palace, 1875 |
114 |
| Old View of St. James's Palace, before the Great Fire |
115 |
| Kitchen of St. James's Palace, Time of George III. |
120 |
| Cleveland House, in 1799 |
121 |
| Messrs. Christie and Manson's original Auction Rooms |
126 |
| Mrs. Fitzherbert's House, Nell Gwynne's House, and Schomberg House: 1820 |
127 |
| Marlborough House, 1710 |
132 |
| Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough |
133 |
| The Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall |
138 |
| Old Houses in Pall Mall, about 1830 |
139 |
| The Ordnance Office, Pall Mall, 1850 |
144 |
| Front of the Army and Navy Club |
154 |
| Entrance to the Carlton Club |
150 |
| Library of the Reform Club |
151 |
| The "Thatched House" Tavern |
156 |
| White's Club |
157 |
| Crockford's Club, about 1840 |
162 |
| Arthur's Club and Brooks's Club |
163 |
| St. James's Street in 1750 |
168 |
| St. James's Place |
169 |
| Samuel Rogers |
174 |
| Samuel Rogers' House, Green Park Front |
175 |
| Bridgewater House |
180 |
| The Peace Rejoicings in the Green Park |
181 |
| The Fountain in the Green Park, 1808 |
186 |
| St. James's Square in 1773 |
187 |
| St. James's Theatre |
192 |
| Willis's Rooms |
193 |
| The First Quadrille danced at "Almack's" |
198 |
| The Ball-room, Willis's Rooms |
199 |
| Bury Street |
204 |
| The Turkish Bath, Jermyn Street |
205 |
| The Yard of the Old "White Bear" Inn, Piccadilly, about 1820 |
210 |
| Piccadilly Circus, from Coventry Street |
211 |
| Entrance to the Old Opera House, 1800 |
216 |
| Joseph Addison |
217 |
| The Old Haymarket Theatre |
222 |
| Samuel Foote |
223 |
| The College of Physicians |
228 |
| The Old Tennis Court, near the Haymarket |
229 |
| Sir Isaac Newton's House |
234 |
| Golden Square Brewery |
235 |
| Golden Square in 1750 |
240 |
| The Pantheon Theatre |
241 |
| Old Stables in Swallow Street, 1820 |
246 |
| Swallow Street during its Demolition |
247 |
| The Quadrant, Regent Street, before the Removal of the Colonnade |
252 |
| Sir Isaac Newton |
253 |
| The Albany, in 1800 |
258 |
| The New "White Horse Cellar" |
259 |
| Burlington House, about 1700 |
264 |
| Burlington House, 1875 |
265 |
| Clarendon House in 1666 |
270 |
| Clarges House, Piccadilly |
271 |
| Devonshire House, about 1800 |
276 |
| Sir Francis Burdett |
277 |
| Cambridge House in 1854 |
282 |
| Old Hyde Park Corner in 1820 |
283 |
| Hamilton Place in 1802 |
288 |
| The Royal Institution |
289 |
| Long's Hotel, Bond Street |
294 |
| Professor Faraday |
295 |
| Gloucester House, Piccadilly |
300 |
| The London University, Burlington Gardens |
301 |
| Uxbridge House |
306 |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
307 |
| Sir Benjamin Brodie |
312 |
| Hanover Square in 1750 |
313 |
| Harewood House |
318 |
| George Street, Hanover Square, in 1800 |
319 |
| Berkeley Square |
324 |
| Lansdowne House in 1800 |
325 |
| The Sign of "The Running Footman" |
330 |
| Extinguishers in Berkeley Square |
331 |
| Grosvenor Square |
336 |
| The Loft used by the Cato Street Conspirators |
337 |
| Curzon Chapel, May Fair |
342 |
| Tiddy Dol |
343 |
| Claridge's Hotel |
348 |
| Chesterfield House, 1760 |
349 |
| The Grand Staircase, Chesterfield House |
354 |
| The Earl of Chesterfield |
355 |
| Hyde Park Corner in 1750 |
360 |
| The Duke of Wellington in 1842 |
361 |
| Apsley House in 1800 |
366 |
| Entrance to Grosvenor Street from Hyde Park |
367 |
| Map of Hyde Park in 1748 |
370 |
| The Front of Grosvenor House |
372 |
| Camelford House, 1820 |
373 |
| A London Dandy of 1646 |
378 |
| Hyde Park on Sunday, 1804 |
379 |
| Group of Old Trees in Hyde Park |
384 |
| The Cake House, Hyde Park |
385 |
| The Statue of Achilles |
390 |
| A Meet of the Four-in-Hand Club |
391 |
| Bridge over the Serpentine |
396 |
| The Marble Arch |
397 |
| Old Outfall of the Serpentine at Knightsbridge, 1800 |
402 |
| Tyburn Turnpike, 1820 |
403 |
| The Lord Mayor's Banqueting House, Oxford Road, 1750 |
408 |
| Mrs. Montagu's House, Portman Square |
409 |
| Madame Tussaud |
414 |
| Marylebone in 1740 |
415 |
| The Old Manor House, Marylebone, in the Time of Queen Elizabeth |
420 |
| Manchester House |
421 |
| Two Views of Old Marylebone Church |
426 |
| Marylebone Gardens |
427 |
| The "Farthing Pie House" |
432 |
| Stratford Place |
433 |
| Wigmore Street in 1820 |
438 |
| Marylebone, from the site of the present Wigmore Street |
439 |
| Langham House in 1820 |
444 |
| Cavendish Square, 1820 |
445 |
| Foley House in 1800 |
450 |
| J. M. W. Turner, R.A. |
451 |
| The Entrance to Portland Place, 1815 |
456 |
| Interior of the Jewish Synagogue, Great Portland Street |
457 |
| The Middlesex Hospital |
462 |
| Oxford Market |
463 |
| Map of Rathbone Place and Neighbourhood, 1746 |
468 |
| Exterior of the Tottenham Street Theatre, 1830 |
469 |
| Whitfield's Tabernacle, 1820 |
474 |
| The "Adam and Eve" Tavern, 1750 |
475 |
| The Manor House of Toten Hall |
475 |
| The Field of the Forty Footsteps |
480 |
| The Rookery, St. Giles's, 1850 |
481 |
| Messrs. Meux's Brewery, 1830 |
486 |
| Encampment in the Gardens of Montagu House, 1780 |
487 |
| Montagu House, Grand Staircase |
492 |
| Front of Montagu House, Great Russell Street, 1830 |
493 |
| Sir Hans Sloane |
498 |
| The King's Library |
499 |
| The Reading-room of the British Museum |
504 |
| The Book-cases at the British Museum |
505 |
| The Towneley Gallery |
510 |
| Court-yard of Montagu House, 1830 |
511 |
| The Nineveh Gallery |
516 |
| The Mammalia Saloon |
517 |
| The Portland Vase |
522 |
| Front of the British Museum |
523 |
| A Slab from the Nineveh Gallery |
528 |
| The Lycian Gallery |
529 |
| Bedford House in 1772 |
534 |
| Bloomsbury Square |
535 |
| Isaac D'Israeli |
540 |
| St. George's Church, Bloomsbury |
541 |
| The Old "Black Bull" Inn, Gray's Inn Lane |
546 |
| Red Lion Square in 1800 |
547 |
| Old Houses in Holborn |
552 |
| Powis House, 1714 |
553 |
| Lord Thurlow |
558 |
| Queen Square, 1810 |
559 |
| Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street |
564 |
| Sir Thomas Lawrence's House, Russell Square |
565 |
| University College, Gower Street |
571 |