13. Novel Notes

A8 B-U8. Pp. i-ix x-xv xvi 1 2-292 1-11 12.
Contents: i half-title: NOVEL NOTES; ii-iii blank; iv frontispiece (three men chatting); v title-page; vi publisher’s address and code number (T.4,623.); vii TO / BIG-HEARTED, BIG-SOULED, BIG-BODIED / FRIEND / CONAN DOYLE; viii blank; ix x-xv PROLOGUE [signed ‘JJK’ [middle J much larger, curves below first J]; xvi blank; 1 2-292 text;
[1-6] extracts from the Leadenhall Press Book List ; [7] advertisement for the Author’s Hairless Paper-Pad; [8] advertisement for Leadenhall Press printing services;
[9] advertisement for A New Shilling Book of Alphabets; [10] blank; [11] advertisement for Stickphast-paste; [12] pastedown.
Printed on coated wove paper, 186 x 124mm; bottom edges uncut.
*Dark yellow cloth, lettered in black on front and spine; spine: [rule] / NOVEL / NOTES / JEROME / K. / JEROME / The Leadenhall / Press. / Limited / [rule]; on back cover: Leadenhall Press monogram.
Previously serialized in The Idler, volumes 1-3, May, 1892-April, 1893.
Listed in English Catalogue, August 1893, 3/6; reviewed in Athenaeum, 2 September 1893: 321. Copies seen: FR; APR (16); University of Illinois Library; Toronto Public Library.

Unsigned, 1-198. Pp. [6] 1 2-295 296-98.
Contents: [1-3] blank; [4] list of other Jerome titles in Holt’s Author’s Edition; [5] title-page; [6] COPYRIGHT, 1892, 1893, / BY / JEROME K. JEROME. / THE MERSHON COMPANY PRESS, / RAHWAY, N.J.; 1 2-5 PROLOGUE.; 6 blank; 7-295 text; 296-98 blank.
Printed on coated wove paper, size 187 x 127mm.
*Brown cloth, lettered in black on front and spine; spine: NOVEL / NOTES / [short rule] / JEROME / HENRY HOLT & Cº.
Listed in Publisher’s Weekly 1143, 23 December 1893; American Catalog 1890-95, $1.25; Copies seen: FR; APR; Library of Congress – acquisition date 4 November 1893.

1-716. Pp [4] i -vi vii-xii 13-216 217-20.
Contents: [1-2] pastedown; [3-4] blank; i half-title: NOVEL NOTES; ii blank; iii title-page; iv blank; v dedication; vi blank; vii-xii PROLOGUE; 13-216 text; 217-20 blank (final leaf pastedown).
Printed on wove paper, size 173 x 107mm.
*Dark green cloth, lettered in black; advertisement for Fry’s Breakfast Cocoa on back.
Listed in English Catalogue, Nov., 1920, 2/-.
Copies seen: FR (2); APR (4, one in light blue cloth, without publisher’s device on spine)); University of Miami Library.