A foundling left at a village post office in Connecticut grows up among the people who sort the mail and know everybody's business. Wright was known for her nature books and wrote fiction on the side, and the New England village in it is observed rather than invented. This edition adds fifty-eight plates of painting from 1745 to 1909, among them works by Edward Lamson Henry, Edvard Munch and William Powell Frith, with one restored and coloured illustration in the text.
Rome under a boy pope, with a noble house set on the throne and a woman accused of sorcery at the center of it. Gallizier wrote a run of novels about medieval Italy, dense with the politics of the papal city, and this is the darkest of them. This edition is bound with 58 plates of painting, among them Roman capriccios and ruin views by Panini, Van Bemmel and Hubert Robert, alongside two illustrations restored and coloured for this volume.
