Vintage Classics.

Painting by Henri Jean Fantin-Latour, 1864.

Vintage Classics.

Illustrations by Peter de Sève.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Photograph by Emma Hardy.

Vintage Classics.

Painting by Lord Leighton.

Vintage Classics.

Drawing by William Orpen.

Vintage Books.

Photograph by Dorothy Wilding.

Vintage Classics.

Painting from the V & A.

An oldie but goldie,

Vintage International.

Photograph by Andrea Gentl,

Shoes by Bass,

Skirt by New Republic.

Vintage Classics (undead).

Vintage Classics.

Portrait of Chaucer from

the British Library.

Vintage Books.

Dress from the V & A.

The Little Book Room.

Buttons textile by Sholto Drumlanrig

for the V & A and Liberty, 2010.

Wiltshire, 1933, fabric by Liberty.

Vintage Classics.

Painting from the Barnes Foundation.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Photograph by Parky.

Listen to her cut glass 1930s accent.

NYRB.

Photographs by Cecil Beaton

and Mark Gerson.

Vintage Classics.

Illustration from the Illustrated London

News/Mary Evans Picture Library

Vintage Classics.

Illustration from the

Mary Evans Picture Library.

Website for the Nancy Mitford estate.

Vintage Books.

Photographer unknown.

Photograph by Cecil Beaton.

Photograph by Bassano.

Photograph by Bassano.

Photograph by Bassano.

Atlas & Co.

Vintage Books.

Collage by Duncan Hannah.

Vintage Classics.

Illustration by Christopher Silas Neal.

Vintage Classics.

Illustration by Christopher Silas Neal.

. . . and the occasional book shop sign.

Sharon, Litchfield County, Connecticut.

Vintage Books.

Photograph by Roger Mayne.

Vintage Books.

Photograph by Roger Mayne.

Persephone Books, London.

Photograph by Angus McBean.

Vintage Classics (thought better of).

Vintage Classics.

Painting by Philip Taaffe.

Vintage Classics. 

Photograph by Katherine Wolkoff.

Vintage Books. 

Photograph by Richard Rutledge.

Vintage Books. 

Photograph by John Rawlings.

Vintage Books. Photograph by Horst P. Horst.

Vintage Classics. 

Wallpaper design by C. F. A. Voysey.

Vintage Classics. Design for woven silk 

by Anna Maria Garthwaite.

Persephone Books, London.

Painting by Sir James Gunn.

Persephone Books, London. 

Painting by Evelyn Dunbar.

Vintage Books. Photograph by Dorothy Wilding.

Vintage Classics. Print from 

N. Heideloff's "Gallery of Fashion", 1795.

Vintage Classics. Aquatint engraving from 

N. Heideloff's "Gallery of Fashion" 1802.

Vintage Books. Photograph by Slim Aarons.