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.
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"
This is a collection of writing on Asian romance. Ramsden notes that copy is 'one of 30 numbered copies on Dutch hand-made paper'. Has the marking '1/30 9R'. Contains Edith Wharton's bookplate. Marbled paper boards with a morocco label.