20. Three Men on the Bummel

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  1. *Three Men on the Bummel. Bristol, J.W. Arrowsmith, [1900].

    18 2-208 214. Pp. 1-8 9-328.
    Contents: 1 half-title: THREE MEN ON / THE BUMMEL.; 2 [gothic type face] By the same Author. / [within rules] THREE MEN IN A BOAT. / DIARY OF A PILGRIMAGE. / THOUGHTS OF AN IDLE / FELLOW. / SKETCHES IN LAVENDER. / STAGELAND. / ETC.; 3 blank; 4 frontispiece; 5 title-page; 6 [rule] / [gothic type face] Arrowsmith’s 3/6 Series. / VOL. XXXVI. / [rule]; 7 dedication; 8 blank; 9 10-328 text.
    Printed on smooth wove paper, size 184 x 123mm.
    *Dark red cloth, lettered in red on front, gilt on spine; spine: [decorative rule] / THREE / MEN / ON THE / BUMMEL / JEROME / K. JEROME / [decorative rule] / [publisher’s device] ARROWSMITH / 3/6 / VOL. XXXVI
    Previously serialized in To-Day, 4 January-5 April, 1900.
    Listed in English Catalogue, May 1900, 3/6; reviewed in Athenaeum, 19 May 1900: 623-24.;
    Copies seen: FR; APR (17); Bodleian Library – Arch H e.173, Jerome’s copy with dedication on half-title: ‘Um Mein Liebchen / May 1900 / JKJ’.

  2. Three Men on the Bummel. London, T.F. Unwin (Colonial Library Edition). 328p.
    Text printed from the plates of Arrowsmith’s first edition.
    Red cloth, gilt lettered on spine.
    Copies seen: APR.
  3. *Three Men on the Bummel. Bristol, J.W. Arrowsmith, 1914.

    18 2-158 1610. Pp. 1-8 9-259 [1].
    Contents: 1 half-title: THREE MEN ON THE BUMMEL; 2-3 blank; 4 frontispiece Captain Goyles watching the weather.; 5 title-page; 6 Copyright. Entered at Stationers’ Hall; 7 dedication; 8 blank; 9-259 text; at foot of 259: [rule] / PRINTING OFFICE OF THE PUBLISHERS; [1] list of 9 titles in Arrowsmith’s 1/- series of novels.
    Printed on wove paper, size 168 x 104mm.
    Red cloth, with blind-stamped rules on front and back, gilt lettered on spine: [double rule] / [row of heart-shaped ornaments within rules] / THREE MEN / ON THE / BUMMEL / [short rule] / JEROME K. / JEROME / ARROWSMITH / BRISTOL / [row of heart-shaped ornaments within rules] / [double rule]
    Listed in English Catalogue, April 1914, price 1/-.
    Copies seen: FR; APR (8, including reprints of 1924 -“3rd edition”, 1933 -“4th edition”, and 1937 “4th edition”).
    There were a 29th impression, March 1942, 32nd impression, April 1943, and 33rd impression, 1943 in which the last two pages are reset, so that the total is now 258 pages.
    Copies seen: APR (2).

  4. Three Men on the Bummel. Bristol, J.W. Arrowsmith, 1945.
    192p. No illustrations.
    Copies seen: APR (12, from 35th impression, January 1945 to 38th impression, July 1948).
  5. Three Men on the Bummel. London, J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1950.
    192p. No illustrations.
    Text printed from the plates of Arrowsmith’s 1945 edition.
    Copies seen: APR (4, from 39th impression, 1950 to 43rd impression, 1966).
  6. Three Men on the Bummel. Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1900.
    18 2-178 184. Pp. 1-7 8-278 279-80.
    Contents: 1 half-title: COLLECTION / OF / BRITISH AUTHORS / TAUCHNITZ EDITION. / VOL. 3428. / THREE MEN ON THE BUMMEL. / BY / JEROME K. JEROME. / IN ONE VOLUME..; 2 list of other Jerome titles in Tauchnitz editions; 3 title-page; 4 blank; 5 dedication; 6 blank; 7 8-278 text; 279 [short rule] / PRINTING OFFICE OF THE PUBLISHER.; 280 blank.
    Printed on wove paper, size 163 x 117mm.
    Buff paper cover, lettered in black on front and spine;
    Copies seen: FR (1930 printing with no date on title-page); APR (4).
  7. Three Men on the Bummel. London and Paris, The Albatross, 1948.
    Pp. 1-4 5-228 229-32. (Albatrosss Modern Continental Library, no. 3428).
    Printed on wove paper, size 180mm. x 112mm.
    Orange-yellow and white paper cover, lettered in yellow and black.
    Copies seen: APR (5).
  8. Three Men on the Bummel. London, The Readers Library Publishing Company Ltd, [1929]
    Pp. 1-8 9-252 [4].
    Printed on poor wove paper, size 163 x 102mm.
    Maroon cloth, gilt lettered on front and spine.
    Listed in English Catalogue, May 1929, price 6d.
    Copies seen: FR; British Library 012601.bbb.51, acquisition date 8 May 1929.
  9. Three Men on the Bummel. Simplified by G./ Horsley. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1967. (Longmans’ Simplified English Series).
    118p.
    Not seen.
  10. Three Men on the Bummel. London, Dent, 1978. (Everyman’s Library).
    x, 173p.
    Introduction by D.C. Browning.
    Light blue cloth, gilt lettered on spine.
    Copies seen: APR
  11. Three Men on the Bummel. Bath, Cedric Chivers, 1981.
    313p.
    Not seen.
  12. Three Men on the Bummel. Gloucester, Alan Sutton, 1982.
    Pp. 1-3 4-231 232.
    Printed on wove paper, size 190 x 125mm.
    Black paper cover, lettered in white and pink.
    Copies seen: FR; APR.
  13. Three Men on the Bummel. Gloucester, Alan Sutton, 1987
    Printed from the plates of the Sutton 1982 edition.
    Printed on wove paper.
    Paper cover; front: coloured illustration “La Jolie Artiste,” by Jean Beraud.
    Copies seen: APR (1987); Library of Congress (1990).
  14. Three Men on the Bummel. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1983.
    Pp. 1-4 5-207 208.
    Printed on wove paper, size 181 x 111mm.
    Paper cover; front, lettered in black on coloured illustration of three men on bicycle and tandem, by Ken Cox.
    Copies seen: FR; APR (2); 1994 reprint APR (2)
  15. Three Men on the Bummel. Selections (English and Chinese texts on facing pages). 1997.
    Unsigned (perfect binding). Pp. [2] I-II, 1 2-225.226-28.
    Contents: [1] title-page; [2] blank; I-II Introduction in Chinese; 1 Contents; 2-225 text; 226 blank; 227 publishing information in Chinese; 228 blank.
    Printed on wove paper, size 183 x 112mm.
    Paper cover with illustration of boats at a wharf with houses behind.
    Copies seen: FR
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