"The Decoration Of Houses" 1907 WHARTON, Edith & CODMAN, Ogden Jr Sterling Trophies Florida beckons more alluring that

Florida beckons more alluring that ever to yachtsmen

Jean inscribed on frontispiece

Print Size: 13"H x 19"W

It is the first book to step inside the privately owned mansions to reveal a diverse collection of architectural jewels complemented by spectacular gardens

and from the comfortable distance of the written word

"The Decoration Of Houses" 1907 WHARTON, Edith & CODMAN, Ogden Jr Sterling Trophies Florida beckons more alluring thatWHARTON, Edith & CODMAN, Ogden Jr [204] pp. w 16 plates Charles Scribner's Sons 1907 9 1 8" x 7" Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to portray realistically the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, for her novel The Age