EWL

WELCOME

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.

Browse Items (7 total)

Blue cloth. Two passages marked with brackets: pg. 21 and pg. 28. An additional annotation on pg. 288. Ramsden notes the marking on endpapers, and “corresponding marks in the text” belong to Kenneth Clark. On pg. 241, there is a tuft of black dog…

The book is bound in black cloth linen with gilt decorations. There is an inscription on the fly: "Ira from Violet. A little memory of happy days at Plymouth? March 1894." This is followed by lines of poetry copied in French.
Tic marks have been…

Inscription in Edith Wharton's hand reads, "'Edith Jones Boston Aug 05 80." The initials "KC" (for Kenneth Clark) also appear in blue pencil on the fly. Reproduced illustrations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti appear on the title page as well as the…

Full title: The Dialogues of Plato Translated into English with Analysis and Introductions. Edited and Translated by B. Jowett.  A collection in five volumes, second edition. Ramsden notes a single marginal marking in his Edith Wharton's Library…

"Studies based on a course of lectures delivered in April 1912 at Columbia University."

A note from the publisher has been inserted at the front: "Published for the Columbia University Press by Henry Frowde Oxford University Press London, E.C. and…

Cover gilded/embossed with "Frederic R. Jones 1858."; Contains a note from Kenneth Clark on flyleaf that reads "Colin Clark left to him by his Godmother Edith Wharton Easter 1938." Bound in morocco (full) with decorations (gothic, blindstamped)…

Features an embossed cross on front and back cover, bound in brown morocco (full), duodecimo; contains a note from Kenneth Clark that reads: "This is Edith Wharton's prayer book given to her on her confirmation & used by her as a girl"
Output Formats

atom, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2