half title, with list of eight works BY THE SAME AUTHOR within single-rule box on verso, pp [i-ii];
title page, verso blank, pp [iii-iv];
table of CONTENTS, verso blank, pp [v-vi];
sectional title, verso blank, pp [vii-viii];
text pp [1]-559, with sectional titles, versos blank, pp [313-14] and [453-54], and

Printed by T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to Her Majesty

at the Edinburgh University Press

at foot p 559;

p [560] blank;
followed by an 8-page gathering of publisher’s advertisements (signed S on recto of first leaf);
endpapers dark blue where facing;

There are at least two copies, neither of which appears to have been recased, with white endpapers, but the top edges plain rather than gilt as on regular endpapers, and the gatherings not sewn on tapes as are other copies.

all edges trimmed, top edges gilt;
bound in red ribbed cloth, back cover plain, front cover gilt lettered

CELIBATES

GEORGE MOORE

and spine gilt stamped

double rule

CELIBATES

GEORGE MOORE

double rule

WALTER SCOTT

triple rule

“Mildred Lawson,” sections XIV-XVII revised from “An Art Student” in Today, Spring 1895; “John Norton,” revised and condensed from A Mere Accident (A10); “Agnes Lahens,” previously unpublished. Sheets of this edition, including publisher’s catalogue, were used for:

A21-a2 Colonial Edition

Colonial Edition, Scott Publishing Co., Ltd., London, 1895.

A21-2a First American edition

Title Page

CELIBATES

GEORGE MOORE

AUTHOR OF “ESTHER WATERS,” ETC., ETC.

New York

MACMILLAN AND CO.

AND LONDON

1895

Launch

Published July 1895 at $1.50

Description

Height: 7 7/16 in; 7.44 in; 18.89 cm

Width: 4 7/8 in; 4.88 in; 12.38 cm

B-2F8, 2G10 (all signed on recto of leaf 5); pp viii, 460, comprising:

half title, with publisher’s monogram on verso, pp [i-ii];
title page, with

BY MACMILLAN AND CO.

Norwood Press:

J.S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith.

Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

on verso, pp [iii-iv];

table of CONTENTS., verso blank, pp v-[vi];
sectional title, verso blank, pp [vii-viii];
text pp 1-453, with sectional titles, versos blank, pp [255-256] and [369-370];
p [454] blank;
publisher’s advertisements pp [455-58];
pp [459-60] blank;
white endpapers;
all edges trimmed;
bound in grayish-green cloth, back cover plain, front cover gilt lettered within fancy decorative border of dark green

CELIBATES

dark green ornament

GEORGE MOORE

and spine gilt lettered

CELIBATES

dark green ornament

MOORE

MACMILLAN & C°

with a fancy decorative border in dark green at top and bottom.

Text, with corrections, same as first edition (A21-a). Later issues have lettering on binding in black. Plates of this edition were used for:

A21-2a2 Brentano Uniform Edition

Brentano Uniform Edition, New York, 7 May 1915, which includes an “Introduction” by Temple Scott found in no other edition. The first edition text also was used for:

A21-3a Tauchnitz edition

Collection of British Authors, Volume 3068, Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1895. Celibates was the first of thirteen books by GM, issued in nineteen volumes, in this Taunchitz series. Titles include:

[formatted as ordered list to facilitate reading]

Celibates (A21)
Evelyn Innes, volume I (A22-2a)
Evelyn Innes, volume II (A22-2a)
Sister Teresa, volume I (A25-2b)
Sister Teresa, volume II (A25-2b)
The Untilled Field (A26-b)
Confessions of a Young Man (A12-2c)
The Lake (A27-b)
Memoirs of My Dead Life (A29-b)
Hail and Farewell, volume I (A31:I-3a,)
Hail and Farewell, volume II (A31:II-3a)
Hail and Farewell, volume III (A31:III-b)
Spring Days (A13-2b)
The Brook Kerith, volume I (A35-3a)
The Brook Kerith, volume II (A35-3a)
Muslin, volume I (A34-2a)
Muslin, volume II (A34-2a)
The Coming of Gabrielle (A39-b)
Celibate Lives (A52-3a).

Bibliographical Comment

“Mildred Lawson” was rewritten as “Henrietta Marr” and included in In Single Strictness (A44), which was reissued as Celibate Lives (A52) with “Hugh Monfret” omitted. The latter story is a reworking, although not strictly a rewriting, of “John Norton.” See D:Cz-l for Czech translation of “Mildred Lawson” and “John Norton”; D:No-l and D:No-2 for Norwegian translations of “Agnes Lahens” and “John Norton”; and D:Ru-3 for a Russian translation of “Mildred Lawson.” According to Stanislaus Joyce in My Brother’s Keeper, New York, 1958 [p 98], James Joyce translated a “good part” of Celibates “into Italian while he was living in Trieste,” but no record of publication has been located.

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