B15 Maxims of George Moore

Table of Contents

B15-a First edition

Title Page

Launch

Description

Contents

B15-a2 American edition

B15-a First edition

Title Page

SESAME BOOKLETS

Maxims

Of

George Moore

Selected by

Elsie E. Morton

G. G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.

2 & 3 Portsmouth St. London

first line in top of elaborate design, next five lines in red within wreath of flowers, publisher’s imprint under wreath and above bottom portion of design which includes an open book in center and artist’s name, W. E. Ashton, in the lower right corner.

Launch

Published November 1915 at -/6

Description

Height: 3 3/4 in; 3.75 in; 9.53 cm

Width: 2 1/2 in; 2.5 in; 6.35 cm

[A]8, B-D8; pp [ii], 62,

• with

HERE ENDS NUMBER FIFTY-

THREE OF SESAME BOOKLETS

at foot of p [62]; a list on verso of half title, p [ii], lists this booklet as “46.”

• tan endpapers;
• all edges untrimmed;
• issued in cream-colored heavy paper wrappers, back cover has multi-colored design resembling the border of an oriental rug, front cover lettered in black

THE MAXIMS OF

GEORGE MOORE [flower]

on a tan background within single-rule box at top, multi-colored drawing of trees against sky and distant mountains with artist’s name CA WILKINSON in lower left corner within heavy-rule border,

• and lettered in black down the spine

THE MAXIMS OF GEORGE MOORE

Contents

A total of 131 short excerpts from GM’s books, Flowers of Passion (A1) through Hail and Farewell (A31), each credited to the book from which it is taken. A note on p [3] says,

The thanks of the Compiler are due

to Mr. George Moore for permission to

print these quotations.

B15-a2 American edition

An American issue listed in The United States Catalog as having been published as Thoughts from George Moore by McKay, Philadelphia, n.d., and by Crowell, New York, 1927, differs in several particulars from the first edition. The only located copy was formerly in the collection of the late P. S. O’Hegarty of Dublin, who kindly loaned it to Edwin Gilcher for examination. It is now in the Special Collections Department of the University of Kansas Library at Lawrence.

In place of the inserted colored frontispiece of a young woman wearing a large blue hat used in the first edition, there is an inserted frontispiece of a reproduction of the GM portrait by William Strang, used as the frontispiece of the first edition of Confessions of a Young Man (A12-a); endpapers are light green; back cover and spine are plain, and front is lettered in black

THOUGHTS FROM

GEORGE MOORE

within a double rule border above a line drawing in four colors of Father Time, scythe over his shoulder and an hourglass at his feet, pausing at a signpost in a desert-like landscape.