Welcome to Edith Wharton's Library! This site displays searchable image files for the books contained in Wharton's library at The Mount, her historic estate in Lenox, MA.
The Will to Power, Part II. Volume IX (of 10). Some penciled markings have been added to the text. A penciled, handwritten note (likely from a bookseller) appears inserted at the front, listing the book's author and title.
Vol. 5 of a 7-volume, sextodecimo (16mo) set that includes: La Confession d'un Enfant du Siècle Comédies et Proverbes (3 volumes)Nouvelles et Contes Premières Poésies Poésies Nouvelles Set is uniformly bound in half red morocco leather with gilt…
Vol. 5 of a 7-volume, sextodecimo (16mo) set that includes: La Confession d'un Enfant du Siècle Comédies et Proverbes (3 volumes)Nouvelles et Contes Premières Poésies Poésies Nouvelles Set is uniformly bound in half red morocco leather with gilt…
Vol. 2 of a 7-volume, sextodecimo (16mo) set that includes: La Confession d'un Enfant du SiècleComédies et Proverbes (3 volumes)Nouvelles et Contes Premières PoésiesPoésies NouvellesSet is uniformly bound in half red morocco leather with gilt ruling…
2nd edition. Illustrated, with a frontispiece from a drawing by Walter Paget.
Kingsley was a supporter of the 19th c. English religious movement known as "muscular Christianity" (of which Wharton's associate, Theodor Roosevelt, was also an…
Bound in quarter vellum with marbled boards and endpapers. One of an edition of 995 copies printed on Dutch handmade paper (much like Wharton's other Mérimée editions, all published through the "Collection des Chefs-D'Oeuvres"
With illustrations and inscription on the fly: "Edith Wharton With love from one gardener to another Alice Martineau March 1924." Wharton provided the Introduction to another of Martineau's works, Gardening in Sunny Lands (Cobden-Sanderson, 1924).
Bound in marbled boards with a note from the publisher included: "With the author's compliments." The note is pro forma, but the words "the author's" have been handwritten in pencil. Lubbock's only novel, which Wharton privately criticized in a…
A memoir recounting Lubbock's childhood days at Earlham Hall, the home of his maternal grandparents in Norfolk. The book was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1922.
The volume includes a handwritten note from the publisher, Jonathan…