Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
The House of Life: A Sonnet-Sequence]]>
Bound in limp red morocco leather with gilt-stamped decorations on the cover. An illustrated frontispiece shows the author. Penciled markings appear throughout the text.

Wharton mentions Rossetti's The House of Life in her The Age of Innocence; Newland Archer receives the book, along with a number of other recent English titles, as part of a shipment from London. As Wharton narrates, "Suddenly, among them, he lit on a small volume of verse which he had ordered because the name had attracted him: 'The House of Life.' He took it up, and found himself plunged in an atmosphere unlike any he had ever breathed in books." See The Age of Innocence, Chapter 15.
]]> The Knickerbocker Press]]> Pascal, Blaise
Les Provinciales]]> Nietzsche, Friedrich

Gesammelte Briefe]]>
A few, spare pencil markings have been added to volume 1, which also contains a bookseller's mark on the rear fly.]]> Nietzsche, Friedrich 

Der Wille zur Macht

]]> 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.]]> Musset, Alfred de 

Comédies et Proverbes

]]> 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 ruling and marbled boards.

This is volume 3 of the 3-volume Comédies.]]> Musset, Alfred de 

Comédies et Proverbes

]]> 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 ruling and marbled boards.

This is volume 2 of the 3-volume Comédies.]]> Musset, Alfred de 

Poésies Nouvelles

]]> 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 ruling and marbled boards.]]> Kingsley, Henry

Austin Elliot and the Harveys]]>
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 adherent), and the brother of the Christian socialist philosopher Charles Kingsley.]]> Mérimée, Prosper

Carmen]]> Martineau, Mrs. Philip (Alice)

The Secrets of Many Gardens]]>
Wharton provided the Introduction to another of Martineau's works, Gardening in Sunny Lands (Cobden-Sanderson, 1924).]]> Lubbock, Percy

The Region Cloud]]>
Lubbock's only novel, which Wharton privately criticized in a letter to Gailliard Lapsley, calling it "a strange product in the light of [Lubbock's] private affairs." Here, Wharton is referring to Lubbock's latent homosexuality (in spite of his being married), a situation which she saw likewise reflected in this novel. See Wharton's letter to Lapsley dated 30 October 1925, included in R.W.B. and Nancy Lewis' The Letters of Edith Wharton, p. 486-7.]]> Lubbock, Percy

Earlham]]>
The volume includes a handwritten note from the publisher, Jonathan Cape: "At the request of Percy Lubbock." An illustration of Earlham Hall is featured as a frontispiece.

]]> Jekyll, Gertrude

Lilies for English Gardens]]>
The volume has been marked in several places by Wharton, who has also added an annotation ("June") to p. 30.]]> Irving, Washington

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.]]> Epictetus

The Discourses: 
with the Encheiridion and Fragments]]>