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.
Signed 'Edith Jones Oct. 11th 1878'. Notations made a poem in the Contents list and on the poem itself, possibly by person who wrote the rhyme on the fly-leaf:
'In this book dear girl/ Find a truthful utterance/ For the thoughts that whirl/ Oft…
Gift from Morton Fullerton. With inscription, "To E.W. from W.M.F. 24 Jan. 1912." Fullerton has also included a dedication in Greek, paraphrasing lines from the Greek poet Meleager's The Greek Anthology. A literal (if inelegant) translation of the…
Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise.
Quarter calf leather, morocco label, paneled gilt.
Signed "Edith Wharton" in pen on title page.
Endpapers indicate that the copy was purchased at A La Lampe d'Aladin, 73 Rue de Saints Pères, Paris.