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A beautiful hardcover in fine condition. The navy blue cloth boards are clean and square, with an elaborate blind-stamped decorative panel to the front board that remains crisp and well-defined. Gilt titling and ornamental devices to the spine are bright and fully legible. The binding is firm and tight with no looseness at the joints. Pages are bright throughout, free of marks, stamps, or annotations, with only light toning consistent with age. Several signatures remain unopened, their folded page edges never separated by letter opener or paper knife, meaning those sections have never been read. We have left them intact. The Great Events by Famous Historians is an ambitious 20-volume set presenting world history through the original narratives of noted historians, arranged chronologically. Edited by Rossiter Johnson, LL.D., with associate editors Charles F. Horne, Ph.D., and John Rudd, LL.D., and published by The National Alumni, New York. This volume covers the period 1661 to 1715. Each volume in the set carries a facsimile binding of a historically significant original; the binding of this volume reproduces a celebrated Grolier binding held in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, executed in the shop of Aldus Manutius, the Scholar Printer of Venice. The Grolier motto "Io Grolierii et Amicorum" ("For Grolier and his Friends") is reproduced just as it appears on the original.

A softcover in fine condition. Pages and plates are clean and unmarked throughout, and the boards are clean and unmarked. First Vintage Books edition. Jane Austen: A Life is Claire Tomalin's acclaimed biography of the novelist, drawing on what survives of the historical record. Tomalin, one of Britain's leading literary biographers, dismantles the long-standing image of Austen as a sheltered, homebound figure. Regarded as the finest of the Austen biographies.

The Great Events by Famous Historians was edited by Rossiter Johnson, LL.D., with associate editors Charles F. Horne, Ph.D., and John Rudd, LL.D., and published in 1905 by The National Alumni, New York. This ambitious 20 volume set presented world history through the original narratives of noted historians, arranged chronologically. This volume covers A.D. 1162 to 1300. The binding is a facsimile of an original held in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, executed by Geoffroy Tory and presented by him to King Francis I. The broken vase worked into the design was Tory's personal device, referenced in his treatise Champfleury as a symbol of the body's fragility. The boards are deep green cloth, elaborately blind stamped with the Tory pot cassé pattern described above. The binding remains firm, and the pages are deckle edged with only light signs of aging. Several signatures remain unopened, meaning the folded page edges were never separated with a letter opener or paper knife. These sections have never been read, and we've left them intact.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, edited by Rossiter Johnson, LL.D., was published in 1905 by The National Alumni, New York, as a limited United Empire Edition of one thousand complete sets. This is Volume I, covering B.C. 5867–451, and the volume that carries the set's official limitation statement, registered as No. 363 of 1,000 complete sets, along with a facsimile signature believed to be that of King Edward VII. The boards are bound in deep red cloth, elaborately blind-stamped in a repeating geometric and foliate pattern. The spine is lettered in bright gold against the same red cloth. The binding is firm and the pages are clean, unmarked, deckle-edged, and show very little sign of aging, with the tissue guard protecting the frontispiece present and intact.

A like new copy of the British softcover first edition, first printing. The covers are clean, bright, and unmarked, with a tight, unbroken spine. Pages are crisp throughout. First paperback printing of Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle, by the Countess of Carnarvon, first published in hardcover by Hodder & Stoughton in 2011, with this paperback edition following in 2012. The Countess draws on the extensive Carnarvon family archive to tell the true story of Almina Wombwell, who married the 5th Earl of Carnarvon in 1895, bringing with her a considerable dowry as the daughter of banking tycoon Alfred de Rothschild. Printed and bound in Great Britain.

A beautiful hardcover in very good condition. The boards are bound in rich purple, with Diana's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on the front cover, and a two-toned spine in grey linen with silver lettering. The dust jacket is unclipped, with a small tear at the upper edge. Pages are unmarked throughout, complete and intact with none missing. First U.S. Edition of Diana: Her Life and Legacy, by Anthony Holden, published by Random House in 1997. Holden, a friend of Diana, Princess of Wales, drew on that personal acquaintance, including a meeting with her earlier that year, to write this tribute, illustrated with more than 150 photographs spanning her public and private life.