25. Tea-Table Talk

18 2-88. Pp. 1-4 5-128
Contents: 1 title-page; 2 PRINTED BY / HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD., / LONDON AND AYLESBURY.; 3 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; 4 blank; 5-128 text.
Printed on wove paper, size 185 x 118mm.
Frontispiece and 15 plates on plate paper.
*Blue-green cloth, lettered in pale yellow-green on front and spine; spine: TEA / TABLE / TALK / JEROME / K. / JEROME / HUTCHINSON
Listed in English Catalogue, October 1903, 2/6; brief notice in Times Literary Supplement no. 51, 2 October 1903, 283.
Copies seen: FR; APR (10); Bodleian Library – 27001 e.2158.
Reprinted 1903 as “2nd edition.”
Copies seen: APR.

Unsigned, 1-78 86. Pp. 1-6 7-153 154.
Contents: 1 half-title: TEA-TABLE TALK; 2 blank; 3 title-page; 4 Copyright, 1902, / By JEROME K. JEROME. / Copyright, 1903, / By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY. / [short rule] / Published, October, 1903. / BURR PRINTING HOUSE, / NEW YORK; 5-6‘LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; 7-153 text; 154 blank.
Printed on wove paper, size 174 x 112mm.
Frontispiece and 15 plates on plate paper; all plates except frontispiece are included in the pagination. The sequence is as in the Hutchinson edition, except that the frontispiece and plate 14 are switched.
*Blue-green cloth with white floral pattern, lettered in black on front and spine; spine: [in white rectangle] TEA- / TABLE / TALK / by / JEROME / [in white rectangle] DODD, MEAD / & COMPANY
Listed in Publisher’s Weekly 1659, 14 November 1903; United States Catalog, 1902-5 $1.00.
Copies seen: FR; APR; Bodleian Library – Arch H e.168, with dedication on recto of frontispiece; ‘To my Sweetheart / with love / Jerome K. Jerome / Nov 1903’; Library of Congress – acquisition date 17 October 03; Free Library of Philadelphia.