A28 Reminiscences of the Impressionist Painters

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A28-a First edition

Title Page

Launch

Description

Contents

Bibliographical Comment

A28-a First edition

Title Page

THE TOWER PRESS BOOKLETS

NUMBER THREE [two printer's ornaments]

REMINISCENCES OF THE

IMPRESSIONIST PAINTERS

BY GEORGE MOORE, [printer’s ornament]

DUBLIN: MAUNSEL & CO., LTD.,

60 DAWSON STREET. MCMVI.

Launch

Published May 1906 at 1/- in an edition of 500 copies

Description

Height: 6 1/2 in; 6.5 in; 16.51 cm

Width: 4 in; 10.16 cm

[A]8, B-C8, D4; pp [xvi], 9-48, comprising:

• blank leaf, pp [i-ii];
• half title, verso blank, pp [iii-iv];
• title page, with

PRINTED AT THE TOWER PRESS, THIRTY-EIGHT CORNMARKET, DUBLIN

at foot of verso, pp [v-vi];

• prefatory letter pp [vii-xv];
• p [xvi] blank;
• text pp 9-48;
• all edges untrimmed;
• no endpapers;
• heavy gray overlapping wrappers, back cover and spine plain, list of other titles in series on inside of rear wrapper, front cover stamped in black below a sketch of a crumbling stone tower (after a drawing by Mrs. Murray Robertson) within a single-rule border

THE TOWER PRESS BOOKLETS

NUMBER THREE [three printer’s ornaments]

REMINISCENCES OF THE

IMPRESSIONIST PAINTERS.

BY GEORGE MOORE.

Florian J . Shasky, in a review of the Gilcher bibliography (Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. I, No. 5, 1971 Supplement), notes that “the booklet was also issued in plum-colored wrappers", but no copy of this variant has been located, other than the one in Mr. Shasky's collection. It is not listed by Frances-Jane French in her A Bibliography of the Tower Press Booklets (reprinted as a pamphlet limited to 25 copies from An Leabharlann, the Journal of the Library Association of Ireland, Vol. 25, No. 4, December 1957), who describes the wrappers as being “dove grey”. The preceding volume in the series (Songs of a Devotee by Thomas Koehler), according to Miss French, was issued in “plum wrappers'' so it is possible that a small stock used for these remained and was used for one or more copies of the GM title.

Contents

Prefatory letter to “My Dear Steer,” previously unpublished. Reminiscences of the Impressionist Painters is text of lecture delivered at the request of Sir Hugh Lane on the occasion of an exhibition of Impressionist painting in Dublin, and as printed here it is revised from earlier publication in Scribner ’s Magazine, February 1906. The lecture, revised, included in section VI of Hail and Farewell: Vale (A31:III-a).

Bibliographical Comment

See D:Ge-12 for German translation of prefatory letter and lecture.