p [344] blank;
followed by an inserted 16-page publisher’s catalogue;
white endpapers;
top and fore edges trimmed, bottom edges untrimmed;
bound in dark blue cloth with publisher’s monogram device in blind in lower right corner of back cover, front cover blind stamped with large elongated paneled design enclosed within double-rule border,
spine gilt lettered

MUSLIN

GEORGE

MOORE

all within a long gilt single-rule box with scallop-shaped design at top and bottom

HEINEMANN

Further impressions were issued with title leaf an integral part of the first gathering. Some copies do not have the inserted publisher’s catalogue at the end, and others have a catalogue which lists (p [15]) Muslin among the NEW NOVELS OF 1915.

All copies of the first impression, including those blind stamped PRESENTATION COPY on title page, seem to have the title leaf tipped in on a stub, and apparently there is no explanation other than the possibility of a misprint on either the recto or verso of the original leaf serious enough to cause it to be canceled. The publisher’s records show, according to Miss Grace Cranston of William Heinemann Ltd., that 2,000 sets of sheets were printed for them in July 1915 and at the same time 1,000 sets were printed for Brentano’s (see A34-a2). The records also show that 2,030 cancel title leaves were printed in August, but without an explanation of why they were printed. One hypothesis is that all 3,000 sets were inadvertently printed with the Brentano imprint on the title page. According to Miss Cranston “ten copies… were specially bound up in demy 8vo format for the author in September 1915.” Untrimmed Brentano sheets (8 3/4 in; 8.75 in; 22.23 cm x 5 1/2 in; 5.5 in; 13.97 cm) were used for these author’s copies but they were placed in a special Heinemann binding similar to the regular edition with the addition of a double-rule border in blind at outer edges of front cover, on the spine the gilt panel is elongated, the side rules are heavier, and there is a short rule between the title and the author’s name. GM presented one of these special copies to Maud Cunard dated “October 1st 1915” and it is now in the collection of Sir Rupert Hart-Davis.

The “Preface” is new and, as stated on verso of the title leaf, the text is a rewritten version of A Drama in Muslin (A9).

A34-a2 First American, Brentano Uniform edition

Title Page

MUSLIN

GEORGE MOORE

NEW YORK

BRENTANO’S

1915

Launch

[Not provided by Gilcher]

Description

Height: 7 7/8 in; 7.88 in; 20 cm

Width: 5 1/4 in; 5.25 in; 13.34 cm

[ ]10, A-X8, Y4; pp xx, 344, comprising:

sheets printed from plates of English edition (A34-a), but with title page reset and

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

at foot of verso in place of LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN. 1915.;

white endpapers;
all edges trimmed;
bound in green ribbed cloth, back and front covers plain,
gilt decorations at top and bottom of spine which is gilt lettered

MUSLIN

GEORGE

MOORE

BRENTANO’S

Same as the first edition (A34-a). Other editions using the rewritten, retitled text include:

A34-a3 Heinemann’s Colonial Library

Heinemann’s Colonial Library, London, circa 1915; issued in both wrappers and red cloth, using sheets of the later impressions of the first edition, with title leaf an integral part of first gathering.

A34-2a Tauchnitz edition

Collection of British Authors, in two volumes. Nos. 4541 and 4542, Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1920.

A34-3a Carra Edition

Carra Edition, Volume III, Boni and Liveright, New York, 1922, with a tipped-in frontispiece, protected by a tissue guard sheet lettered in red at foot of verso

GEORGE MOORE

From a painting by J. B. Yeats — 1905

In the Collection of John Quinn, Esq.

A34-4a Heinemann Uniform Edition

Uniform Edition, Heinemann, London, October 1932. Reissued in a different binding as:

A34-4a2 Ebury Edition

Ebury Edition, Heinemann, London, September 1936.

Source: Curated by George Moore Interactive LLC (georgemooreinteractive.org) — Shared for research, educational, and personal use.