Vintage Classics.

12th century Italian lettering

re-drawn by Cardon Webb.

Photographs taken at Tolstoy's estate by

Segei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard.

Photograph by Saul Leiter.

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard.

Photograph by Ernst Haas.

Vintage International.

Photograph by Cecil Beaton.

Vintage International.

Photograph by Clifford Coffin.

Vintage International.

Painting by James Gillick.

Riverhead Books.

Photograph of Louise Brooks

by... can't remember.

Vintage Classics.

William Morris wallpaper.

Vintage Books.

Dress from the V & A.

Vintage Classics.

Typography by Edward Gorey,

drawing c. 1880s, Russian School.

Vintage International.

Photograph by Leombruno-Bodi.

Vintage International.

Photograph by Richard Rutledge.

Vintage International.

Photograph by Olivia Parker.

Vintage International.

Photograph by William Eggleston.

Vintage International.

Photograph by Louise Rosskam.

Vintage International.

Photograph by Horst P. Horst.

Vintage Books.

Painting by Mogens Tvede.

Vintage Classics.

Illustrations by Peter de Sève.

Vintage Classics.

Painting by Henri Jean Fantin-Latour, 1864.

Vintage Classics.

Painting by Lord Leighton.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Photograph by Emma Hardy.

Picador.

Photograph by Gabriele Lopez.

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.

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.

Vintage Classics

Painting by Susanne Wind.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Photograph by Parks.

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.

Alfred A. Knopf.

Jacket photograph by John Deakin.