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.
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).
8th ed. Note at the top of the second page (possible bookseller's mark): “10. C. 10.” Illustration / frontispiece in black and white, showing a rustic home with vegetation surrounding it. The caption to the illustration reads, “An ideal winter home…
3rd ed. With illustrations by Alfred Parsons, including a frontispiece by him (black and white painting of a natural garden, with Parsons’s signature on the bottom right corner of the illustration along with the date “1880”). The caption to the…
The book describes wilds flowers and plants, in order of their appearance each year in springtime woods. With color plates illustrated by Elsie Louise Shaw.