The Decoration of Houses.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. Quarto (23.5 x 17.5 cm.), xxii, 204 pages. Illustrated with fifty-six black and white plates. Index. FIRST EDITION. Edith Wharton's first major published book, albeit a collaborative production with Ogden Codman Jr. It was preceded only by Verses, a privately published collection of poems and translations issued in 1877. The first printing consisted of 2000 copies, of which 400 were sent in sheets to.....