The Privately Printed First Edition numbered (164) of 250 copies signed by the author and printed at his press in Scarborough. This copy is also curiously inscribed to the half title by a former owner and one of the Pulfords in 1886 ! The book gives a detailed account of several interconnected noble families and their ancestral seats, tracing their lineage from the 11th and 12th centuries down to Sitwell's own era.