PERONNIK THE FOOL pp 127-81;
pp [182] blank;
bluish-gray endpapers;
all edges untrimmed;
bluish-gray paper-covered board sides, match endpapers,
parchment spine, with white paper label on spine, lettered in black, except as noted:

Daphnis

& Chloe

rule

Perronik [sic]

the Fool

decorative rule

George Moore [in red]

decorative rule

Carra Edition

Volume XXI

two plain rules, with decorative rule between, all in red, at both top and bottom

This same note was appended to the story when it was published in the Dial with the final sentence continuing, “but it will be easier for me to make up my mind if it would be wise to do this after reading Peronnik the Fool in print, and it is for this reason that I now offer it to the public through the medium of a review.”

“Introduction,” “Proemial,” and The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe are the same as A49-a, with minor textual differences, having been set from page proofs of that edition, prior to last-minute corrections; “Peronnik the Fool,” previously published in the Dial, November 1921. The story is an old Breton legend and can be found in Sonvestre’s Foyer Breton. Other versions of the story in English have appeared as “Peronnik the Jester,” “Silly Peter,” etc.

Although “Peronnik” is misspelled on the spine label, title page, and copyright notice, it is correctly spelled in text.

A50-2a First separate, second American, edition

Title Page

GEORGE MOORE

decorative rule, in red

P [large swag initial, in red] eronnik

the fool

decorative rule, in red

1926

Launch

Published 13 August 1926 at $12.50 in an edition of 785 copies

Description

Height: 9 in; 22.86 cm

Width: 5 5/8 in; 5.38 in; 13.65 cm

[1-5]8, pp [viii], 72, comprising:

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

WILLIAM EDWIN RUDGE

NEW YORK

in center of verso, pp [v-vi] (at least one copy was issued without copyright notice);

NOTE (heading and author’s initials at end in red), verso blank, pp [vii-viii];
text (with large decorative initials at start of each chapter, shoulder headlines throughout, and typographic ornaments at end of each chapter, all in red) pp l-[69];
colophon, p [70];

[thistle] Bruce Rogers [both initials large swag letters in red]

DESIGNED THIS BOOK: OF WHICH 785 COPIES

WERE PRINTED AT THE PRESS OF

WILLIAM EDWIN RUDGE

MOUNT VERNON

NEW YORK

printer-publisher’s monogram device, in red

pp [71-72] blank;
off-white endpapers, matching text paper;
all edges untrimmed;
red and gold head and foot bands;
bound in blue paper-covered boards, front and back covers decorated in an all-over pattern of red and tan,
tan paper label on flat spine, lettered up in red:

Peronnik the Fool

Same as the first edition (A50-a).

A50-b Continental edition, revised

Title Page

PERONNIK

THE FOOL

GEORGE MOORE

(Revised Edition)

The Hours Press

Chapelle-Réanville, Eure, France

1928

Launch

Published 20 December 1928 at 42/- in an edition of 200 copies plus 25 for the author and for review.

Description

Height: Height: 8 7/8 in; 8.88 in; 22.54 cm

Width: 5 1/2 in; 5.5 in; 13.97 cm

[ ]4 (endpapers and binder’s leaves), [1]2 (tipped in), [2-9]4, [ ]4 (binder’s leaves and endpapers); pp [4], iv, 64, [4], comprising:

two blank binder’s leaves conjugate with endpapers, not paginated;
half title, with notice of limitation on verso, pp [i-ii];

200 COPIES OF THIS BOOK

SET BY HAND AND PRIVATELY

PRINTED ON HAND-PRESS

EACH COPY HAS BEEN

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

THIS IS NO [numbered in ink]

George Moore [signed in ink]

title page, verso blank, pp [iii-iv];
text pp [1]-63;
colophon p [64];

This book was finished printing

December 11, 1928, by Nancy

Cunard and Maurice Levy

and is the first volume of

THE HOURS PRESS.

two blank binder’s leaves conjugate with endpapers, not paginated;
all edges untrimmed;
bound in blue buckram,
back cover and spine plain,
front cover gilt stamped

PERONNIK THE FOOL

GEORGE MOORE

Further details regarding the printing of this edition can be found (pp 175-80) in GM: Memories of George Moore (B26), by Nancy Cunard, and in “The Hours Press,” also by Miss Cunard, in The Book Collector, Winter 1964. In both, however, her memory apparently played her false, as she lists the price of the volume at £2, but in the original prospectus of The Hours Press it says, “PERONNIK THE FOOL… Price 2 guineas Ready at Christmas.”

As stated on the title page, this is a revised edition.

A50-2b First English (Uniform) edition

Title Page

THE

PASTORAL LOVES OF

DAPHNIS AND CHLOE

Done into English by

GEORGE MOORE

together with

PERONNIK THE FOOL

vignette

London

William Heinemaim Ltd.

1933

Launch

Published June 1933 at 6/-

Description

Height: 9 in; 22.86 cm

Width: 5 1/2 in; 5.5 in; 13.97 cm

[A]8, B-H8, I4, I✱8 (inserted between I2 and I3) ; pp [vi], 146, comprising:

half title, with list of other GM works PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN THE SAME FORMAT on verso, pp [i-ii];
title page, with accurate listing of previous publication of both titles on verso, pp [iii-iv];
fly title, verso blank, p [v-vi];
INTRODUCTION pp 1-17;
PROEMlAL p 18;
text of DAPHNIS AND CHLOE pp 19-98;
fly title, verso blank, pp [99-100];
text of PERONNIK THE FOOL pp 101-144;
pp [145-46] blank, with extra spine label tipped to lower right corner of verso;
white endpapers;
all edges untrimmed;
marbled paper covered board sides,
brown cloth spine, with white paper label on spine lettered in brown:

Daphnis and

Chloe

dash

Peronnik

the Fool

George

Moore

Heinemann

“Introduction,” “Proemial,” and The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe same as A48-a; Peronnik the Fool, same as Hours Press edition (A50-b). This edition was previously noted as A49-4a.

Reissued in a different binding as:

A50-2b2 Ebury Edition

Ebury Edition, Heinemann, March 1937, previously noted as A49-4a2.

A50-3b Second English edition, illustrated

Title Page

Peronnik the Fool

by George Moore

with Engravings by

Stephen Gooden

chalice and arrow

LONDON

George G. Harrap & Co LTD

1933

all engraved

Launch

Published November 1933 at 84/- in an edition of 525 copies; distributed in the U.S. by Lippincott at $25 and possibly several copies were specially bound for presentation. At least one of these copies (“Number 1”) is bound in green leather, with the tail-piece (the crowing cock) reproduced on the front cover in gilt and with a water color and publisher's name

painted by Gooden on the front binder's leaves. This copy was seen in 1978 by Clinton K. Krauss at Charles J. Sawyer Booksellers in London, and one of the firm's representatives told him that “several copies" had been prepared in this fashion, although this seems unlikely.

Description

Height: 8 7/8 in; 8.88 in; 22.54 cm

Width: 6 1/2 in; 6.5 in; 16.51 cm

[A]4, B-14, K6; pp 1-36, [2], 37-58, [2], 59-80 (=84), comprising:

half title, with engraving on verso, pp [1-2 ];
engraved title page, with “Printed in Great Britain” at foot of verso, pp [3-4];
divisional title p [5];
text pp 6-77, with engraved headpieces pp 6, 26, 50, and 66, pp [24] and [64] blank, divisional titles pp [25], 49, and [65], page engravings (not paginated) facing pp 36 and 58, versos blank, and engraved tail-piece p 77;

See nos. 95-102 in An Iconography of the Engravings of Stephen Gooden, by Campbell Dodgson, London, 1944

colophon p [78];

Published 1933

By GEORGE G. HARRAP & CO. LTD.

39-41 Parker Street, Kingsway, London, W.C.2

Printed by WALTER LEWIS, M.A., at the

University Press, Cambridge

pp [79-80] blank;
white endpapers, with notice of limitations on verso of free front endpaper;

This edition of “Peronnik the Fool” is limited to

525 copies for sale and presentation, of which this

copy is Number [numbered in ink]

George Moore [signed in ink]

Stephen Gooden [signed in ink]

signed by GM prior to his death earlier in the year

top edges gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed;
red and gold headband;
chartreuse place marker;
bound in cream vellum, back cover plain, front cover gilt stamped

PERONNIK

THE FOOL

and spine stamped in gilt

PER-

ON-

NIK

THE FOOL

GEORGE

MOORE

MCM

XXXIII

Text same as A50-b.

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