The Poetical Works

London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1893. Reprinted from the Revised American edition, Including Recent Poems. 630 pp. 8vo. Original gilt-lettered red morocco, a.e.g., remnant of spine laid-in, front board and flyleaf detached, worn and rubbed. Reprinted from the Revised American edition, Including Recent Poems" 630 pp. 8vo. INSCRIBED by Edith Wharton on the half title, with a short poem incorporating Gertrude's farewell to Ophelia. It reads in full:

"Sweets to the sweet & luck to the fair / are applicable both, - / to the girls with the ondule hair, / from her loving cousin / Edith Wharton / July 3rd 1894"

Longfellow was an early admirer of Wharton; he arranged to have one of her adolescent poems published in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY.