The Renaissance is the kind of book nobody makes anymore — a 1961 American Heritage volume, quarter-bound in tan buckram with gold-stamped lettering and a dark damask paper cover, printed when publishers still believed a history book should be furniture. Inside: the whole Renaissance in color plates, back when color plates were an event.
Her spine's top edge shows her sixty-five years honestly. She's the book everything else in this collection wants to stand on — you may recognize her from our photos, doing exactly that.
