- *Idle Ideas in 1905. London, Hurst and Blackett, [1905].
π4 1-198 204. Pp. i-vii viii 1 2-307 308 [4].
Contents: i-ii blank; iii half-title: IDLE IDEAS IN 1905; iv blank; v title-page; vi blank; vii-viii CONTENTS.; 1 2-307 text; 308 PRINTED BY / KELLY’S DIRECTORIES LTD., / LONDON AND KINGSTON.; [1-3] list of Hurst and Blackett publications, beginning with Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; [4] Hurst and Blackett’s / Sixpenny Novels. / With Illustrated Covers.
Contains 21 essays, 20 of which appear in American Wives and Others, but with altered titles.
Printed on stout wove paper, size 191 x 127mm.
*Yellow cloth, red lettering on front, gilt on spine; spine: [red rule] / IDLE / IDEAS / IN / 1905 / JEROME K. / JEROME / LONDON / HURST & BLACKETT / [red rule]
Listed in English Catalogue, June 1905, 3/6.
Copies seen: FR; APR (11).
A later impression is bound in red cloth.
Copies seen: APR (5). - Idle Ideas in 1905. Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1905.
18 2-178. Pp. 1-5 6-272.
Contents: 1 half-title: COLLECTION / OF / BRITISH AUTHORS / TAUCHNITZ EDITION. / VOL. 3825. / IDLE IDEAS IN 1905. BY JEROME K. JEROME. / IN ONE VOLUME.; 2 list of other Jerome titles in Tauchnitz editions; 3 title-page; 4 blank; 5-6 CONTENTS. / [short rule];7-272 text; at foot of 272: PRINTING OFFICE OF THE PUBLISHER. / [rule]
Printed on wove paper, size 163 x 118mm.
Inserted after the final gathering is a 32 page catalogue of the Tauchnitz Edition, dated July 1, 1905.
Buff paper cover, lettered in black.
Copies seen: FR; APR (2).
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