A60 A Communication to My Friends

Table of Contents

A60-a First edition

Title Page

Launch

Description

Contents

Bibliographical Comment

A60-a First edition

Title Page

A

Communication

To

my friends

BY

George Moore

publisher’s device in reddish-brown

The Nonesuch Press

1933

all within border of printer's ornament

Launch

Published 13 June 1933 at 18/- in an edition of 1,000 copies

Description

Height: 9 1/8 in; 9.13 in; 23.18 cm

Width: 5 1/2 in; 5.5 in; 13.97 cm

[1-6]8; pp [4], 92, comprising:

• two blank leaves, not paginated;
• half title, verso blank, pp [1 -2];
• title page, verso blank, pp [3-4];
• Note, verso blank, pp [5-6];
• text pp [7]-86 printed “in Monotype Goudy Modem on Pannekoek mould-made paper,” according to Francis Meynell in The Nonesuch Century, London, 1936;
• colophon, p [87];

This edition consists of 1000 copies, of which 800 copies

are for sale in England by the Nonesuch Press and 200

are for sale in the United States by Random House Inc.

The device on the title page was designed by Stephen

Gooden. Francis Meynell planned the book. Ernest Ingham

printed and made it in England at the Fanfare Press.

NUMBER

[numbered in ink]

• pp [88-92] blank;
• cream endpapers, matching text paper;
• all edges untrimmed;
• Ingres tan paper-covered board sides, both plain,
• Heritage brown calf spine, with gilt lettered up spine

[ornament] George Moore: A Communication to my friends [ornament]

Contents

The “Note” on page [5] by C.D. Medley, GM’s literary executor, relates, “When arrangements were made for the completion of the uniform edition of his works, George Moore proposed to write a general introduction to be published with ‘A Mummer’s Wife’ which he had designated as volume I. As the writing of this introduction progressed the work grew under his hand, his interest and his enthusiasm increased… so that he foresaw a separate publication… of what he had at first only intended as an introduction to the uniform edition. [At the time] of his death… [he had] written only one half of what he had in mind and a third of that [from p 64 on] had not been revised.”

Bibliographical Comment

In accordance with GM’s intention, A Communication to My Friends was used as the introduction to the Heinemann Uniform Edition and was printed with A Mummer’s Wife (A6-4c), the earliest of his writings to appear in that edition.

The title was previously used by Richard Wagner, a fact that could hardly have escaped GM, a great admirer of the German composer.