27. Tommy and Co.

A4 B-U8. Pp. [8] 1 2-302 [2].
Contents: [1-2] SIXTH EDITION / BY / JEROME K. JEROME / [short rule] / PAUL KELVER / In Cloth Gilt, 3/6 / [short rule with center decoration] A FEW PRESS OPINIONS / [short rule]; [3] half-title: TOMMY AND CO.; [4] blank; [5] title-page; [6] blank; [7] CONTENTS; [8] blank; 1 2-45 TOMMY AND CO. / STORY THE FIRST / Peter Hope plans his Prospectus; 46-78 STORY THE SECOND / William Clodd appoints himself / Managing Director; 79-119 STORY THE THIRD / Grindley Junior drops into the / Position of Publisher; 120-159 STORY THE FOURTH / Miss Ramsbotham gives her Services; 160-198 STORY THE FIFTH / Joey Loveredge agrees—on certain / terms—to join the Company; 199-251 STORY THE SIXTH / “The Babe” applies for Shares; 252-302 STORY THE SEVENTH / Dick Danvers presents his Petition; at foot of 302: PLYMOUTH / WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON / PRINTERS; [1] List of Hutchinson’s Select Novels (39 titles); [2] advertisement for a new and cheaper edition of Frankfort Moore’s novels (lists 4 titles)
Printed on wove paper, size 186 x 122mm.
Inserted after the final gathering is a 32 page list of Hutchinson & Co.’s New Books for the Autumn, 1904.
*Dark blue cloth, with gilt lettering on front and spine; spine: [double rule] / TOMMY / AND CO. / JEROME K. / JEROME [double rule] / [double rule] / HUTCHINSON &C°. [publisher’s name measures 40mm.].
Listed in English Catalogue, August, 1904, 6/-; reviewed in Times Literary Supplement, 2 September 1904, 269.
Copies seen: FR; APR (5); Bodleian Library – Arch H e.175, Jerome’s copy, dedicated on title-page ‘To my dear “Company” / with all love / Jerome K. Jerome’; University of Miami Library (both without the advertising insert).
Also issued without the 32 page list of Hutchinson’s new books for autumn 1904, in red cloth, gilt lettered on front and spine; front: [upper right, within rules] Tommy / and Co [2 periods side by side below ‘o’] / Jerome K. / Jerome; spine: [within rules] Tommy / and Co [2 periods side by side below ‘o’] / Jerome K. / Jerome / [below rules, at foot] HUTCHINSON’S / COLONIAL / LIBRARY.
Copies seen: FR.

1-816. Pp. 1-3 4-256.
Contents: 1‘CONTENTS; 2 blank; 3 4-256 text.
Printed on wove paper, size 158 x 106mm.
Frontispiece (signed ‘Leonard Lansdell’ [?] and dated 1911) and title-page on plate paper inserted before first gathering. On recto of frontispiece, list of 57 titles in Hutchinson’s 7d. copyright novels series.
Red cloth, with gilt lettering on spine; front: publisher’s device blind stamped in center; spine: [two double rules] / [ornament] / [two double rules] / Tommy / and Co. / · / Jerome K. / Jerome / [two double rules] / HUTCHINSON / [two double rules].
Listed in English Catalogue, May 1911.
Copies seen: FR; APR (8).

Unsigned, 1-218 224. Pp. [6] 1-337 338.
Contents: [1] title-page; [2] Copyright, 1904 / By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY / Copyright, 1904 / By JEROME K. JEROME / Copyright, 1903, 1904 / By THE CURTIS PUBLISHING CO. / Published September, 1904; [3] CONTENTS; [4] blank; [5] ILLUSTRATIONS; [6] blank; 1-337 text; 338 blank.
Printed on wove paper, size 188 x 127mm.
Frontispiece and 7 plates on plate paper.
*Buff cloth, lettered in green on front and spine; spine: TOMMY/ & CO / JEROME / [red illustration, comic head on stick] / DODD, MEAD / & COMPANY
Listed in Publisher’s Weekly 1707, 1 October 1904; United States Catalog, 1902-5, $1.50; reviewed in New York Times (Saturday Review of Books), 15 October 1904, 684.
Copies seen: FR; APR (3); Bodleian Library – Arch H e.174, Jerome’s copy, dedicated on frontispiece recto: ‘To Rowena / with her author’s / compliments / Jerome K. Jerome / Oct 1904’; Library of Congress – copyright entry 19 August 1904, acquisition date 13 September 1904.
Copies of this edition also exist, identical in every way except for the identification of the publisher at foot of spine as: A·WESSELS / COMPANY
Copies seen: FR.