half title, verso blank, pp [i-ii];
list of six NEW SIX SHILLING NOVELS, within single-rule box, with list of twelve books BY THE SAME AUTHOR, within single-rule box on verso, pp [iii-iv];
title page, with “(All Rights Reserved.)” at foot of verso, pp [v-vi];
table of CONTENTS., verso blank, pp [vii-viii];
fly titles for individual stories, versos blank, pp [1-2], [27-28], [117-118], [153-154], [175-176], [199-200], [221-222], [241-242], [259-260], [269-270], [279-280], [299-300], [395-96];
text pp 3-26, 29-115, 119-151, 155-173, 177-197, 201-220, 223-239, 243-257, 261-268, 271-277, 281-298, 301-393, 297-[420], with pp [116], [152], [174], [198], [240], [258], [278], [394] blank, and

PRINTED BY SEALY, BRYERS AND WALKER, MID. ABBEY ST., DUBLIN

at foot of p [420];

publisher’s advertisements pp [421-424];
white endpapers;
top edges gilt, all edges trimmed;
bound in bright red cloth, back cover plain, front cover blind stamped with decorative design of entwined leaves and publisher’s monogram, gilt lettered

THE

UNTILLED FIELD

BY GEORGE MOORE

and spine gilt lettered

THE

UNTILLED

FIELD

GEORGE MOORE

all within 2 in; 5.08 cm x 1 5/16 in; 1.31 in; 3.33 cm single-rule gilt box

T. FISHER UNWIN

within 1/2 in; 0.5 in; 1.27 cm x 1 5/16 in; 1.31 in; 3.33 cm single-rule gilt box

There are at least three copies extant of what may have been a trial binding. These have the author's name in two lines on the spine, and the title on the cover in one line. This variant was described by Danielson as being the normal binding.

Thomas Warburton in Notes and Queries says there is a variant state of the spine lettering with the author’s name on two lines instead of one, but no copy of this state has been located.

[Formatted as an ordered list to facilitate reading.]

“In the Clay” previously unpublished.
“Some Parishioners,” an early version of section V, called “The Window” in later editions, originally published in a Gaelic version as “Naoim Aiteamail” (Local Saint) in An T-Ûr-Gort (D:Ga-2).
“The Exile” revised from a Gaelic version published as “An Deoraide” in An T-Ûr-Gort, and an English version in Harper’s Weekly, 20 September 1902, and Pall Mall Magazine, October 1902.
“Home Sickness” revised from a Gaelic version published as “Galar Duitce” in An T-Ûr-Gort, and an English version in Harper’s Weekly, 16 August 1902, and Pall Mall Magazine, September 1902.
“A Letter to Rome,” previously unpublished.
“Julia Cahill’s Curse” revised from “The Golden Apples” in English Illustrated Magazine, April 1902.
“A Play-house in the Waste” revised from a Gaelic version published as “‘San n-Diotram Dub” (In the Dark Wilderness) in An T-Ûr-Gort.
“The Wedding Gown” revised from a version published in English Illustrated Magazine, June 1902; a revision of the Gaelic version published as “An Guna-Posta” (D:Ga-l) in the New Ireland Review, January 1902, and reprinted in An T-Ûr-Gort, all a rewriting of “Grandmother’s Wedding Gown” in Lady’s Pictorial, Christmas number, 1887.
“The Clerk’s Quest” revised from “Mr. Dumpty’s Quest” published in both Gaelic (D:Ga-3) and English versions in the New Ireland Review, November 1902; a revision of “Mr. Dumpty’s Ideal” in St. James Gazette, 3 September 1890.
“Alms-Giving” revised from a version published in both Gaelic (D:Ga-4) and English in the New Ireland Review, December 1902; a revision of “Charity” in the Speaker, 6 July 1895; which was in turn a revision of the story as it appeared in the Sketch, 13 September 1893.
“So On He Fares” previously unpublished.
“The Wild Goose,” an early version of a final section originally published in Gaelic as “Tir-grad” (Patriotism) in An T-Ûr-Gort.
“The Way Back” previously unpublished.

An early version of the final section of “The Wild Goose” was published as “Love of Country” and in Gaelic as “Tir-Grad” (Patriotism) in Weekly Freeman, 12 April 1902, with the Gaelic version reprinted in An T-Ur-Gort (D:Ga-2); “The Way Back” previously unpublished.

A26-a2 Bell’s Indian and Colonial Library

Bell’s Indian and Colonial Library, No. 487, London, issued 19 May 1903 in both cloth and wrappers.

A26-2a First American edition

Title Page

The [red]

Untilled Field [red]

double rule

George Moore

AUTHOR OF “ESTHER WATERS,” “EVELYN INNES,”

“SISTER TERESA,” ETC.

double rule

publisher’s device in red

double rule

Philadelphia

J. B. Lippincott Company

1903

all within double-rule border, which with three double rules form a four-compartment box

Launch

Published 13 June 1903 at $1.50. Date is according to copyright data in Library of Congress; the April date on verso of the title leaf may refer to publication of first edition (A26-a).

Description

Height: 7 1/2 in; 7.5 in; 19.05 cm

Width: 5 1/8 in; 5.13 in; 13.02 cm

[1]8, 2-248; pp 384, comprising:

half title, with advertisement for Sister Teresa on verso, pp [1-2];
title page, with:

J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

Published April, 1903

in center and

Printed by

J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U. S. A.

at bottom of verso, pp [3-4];

table of CONTENTS, verso blank, pp 5-[6];
fly titles for individual stories, versos blank, pp [7-8], [31-32], [111-112], [143-144], [163-164], [183-184], [203-204], [221-222], [237-238], [247-248], [255-256], [273-274], and [359-360],
text pp 9-29, 33-109, 113-141, 145-161, 165-182, 185-202, 205-219, 223-235, 239-245, 249-254, 257-272, 275-358, and 361-381, with pp [30], [110], [142], [162], [220], [236,] and [246] blank;
white endpapers;
all edges trimmed;
green headband;
bound in medium green cloth, back cover plain, front cover stamped in white:

The

Untilled

Field

[entwined Celtic cross]

George Moore

all within double heavy-rule box, with initial H in lower left corner

and spine stamped in white:

The

Untilled

Field

by George

Moore

gilt harp of Erin

Lippincott

double heavy rules at both top and bottom of spine

Text varies from first edition (A26-a) and is very likely earlier, as it was probably set from proof pages of the Unwin edition before GM’s customary last-minute revisions.

A26-b Continental edition, revised

Title Page

THE

UNTILLED FIELD

GEORGE MOORE

AUTHOR OF “CELIBATES,” “SISTER TERESA,” ETC. ETC.

LEIPZIG

BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ

1903

Launch

Published May 1903

Description

Height: 6 1/2 in; 5.13 in; 13.02 cm

Width: 4 5/8 in; 4.63 in; 11.75 cm

[1]8, 2-198; pp 304, comprising:

half title, with list of three books “By the same Author” on verso, pp [1-2];
title page, verso blank, pp [3-4];
dedicatory letter to MY DEAR JOHN EGLINTON pp [5]-6;
table of CONTENTS., verso blank, pp [7-8];
text pp [9]-302;
PRINTING OFFICE OF THE PUBLISHER

center p [303];

p [304] blank;
followed by a 32-page inserted publisher’s catalogue dated June 1, 1903.;
no endpapers;
all edges untrimmed;
issued in cream paper wrappers, with publisher’s lists pp [2-4];
front cover lettered in black including publisher’s imprint, copyright notice, and

VOL. 3656.

THE UNTILLED FIELD BY GEORGE MOORE.

IN ONE VOLUME

and spine stamped in black, with eight sets of double rules (heavy and light), two at top and two at bottom:

BRITISH

AUTHORS

TAUCHNITZ

EDITION.

rules

VOL. 3656.

[rules]

G. MOORE

rules

THE

UNTILLED

FIELD.

rules

PRICE

M 1,60.

In the dedicatory letter, dated “May, 1903,” which is found in no other edition, GM says, “I have omitted two stories . . . and I have introduced many other little changes.” The two omitted stories are “In the Clay” and “The Way Back”, and among the changes, the section “Some Parishioners” is divided into four stories, with the first retaining the original title and the others retitled “Patchwork,” “The Marriage Feast,” and “The Window.” Stories from this edition presumably were used for:

A26-2b The Untilled Field: A Selection

The Untilled Field: A Selection, The Students Series, Leipzig, 1930. No copy located, but advertised in later Tauchnitz catalogues,

A26-c Second English edition, revised

Title Page

THE

UNTILLED FIELD

GEORGE MOORE

publisher’s device of windmill, flanked by initids W and H, within single-rule border

LONDON

WILLIAM HEINEMANN

Launch

Published October 1914 at 6/-

Description

Height: 7 1/2 in; 7.5 in; 19.05 cm

Width: 4 3/4 in; 4.75 in; 12.07 cm

[ ]8, A-T8, U6; pp [2], xiv, 316, comprising:

blank leaf, not paginated;
half title, with list of WORKS BY GEORGE MOORE on verso, pp [i-ii];
title page, with “LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN. 1914” at foot of verso, pp [iii-iv];
PREFACE pp v-xi (misnumbered x);
p [xii] blank;
table of CONTENTS, verso blank, pp xiii-[xiv];
text pp [1]-316, with

BILLING AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, GUILFORD

at foot of p 316;

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

THE

UNTILLED

FIELD

GEORGE

MOORE

all within long single-rule gilt border with scallop design at top and bottom

HEINEMANN

A second impression, published January 1915, is noted on verso of its title leaf; the final gathering is U8 with the added leaves blank; there is no inserted catalogue; and the back cover is plain.

The “Preface” is new, the text is revised from that used for Tauchnitz edition (A26-b), and the title of “The Marriage Feast” is changed to “The Wedding Feast.” Sheets of this revised edition were used for:

A26-c2 Heinemann Colonial Library

Heinemann Colonial Library, No. 492, London, 1914. The text of this second revised English edition, including the “Preface,” was used when The Untilled Field and The Lake were included in a single volume in:

A26-2c Carra Edition

Carra Edition, Volume VIII, Boni and Liveright, New York, 1923. There is a tipped-in frontispiece of a reproduction of a painting of GM (by Philip Wilson Steer), protected by a tissue guard sheet,

A26-d Third English edition, revised

Title Page

[Same as A26-c]

Launch

Published January 1926 at 7/6 in format similar to second English edition (A26-c)

Description

Height: 7 3/8 in; 7.38 in; 18.73 cm

Width: 4 3/4 in; 4.75 in; 12.07 cm

[ ]8, A-R8, S4; pp xvi, 280, comprising:

half title, with list of WORKS BY GEORGE MOORE on verso, pp [i-ii];
title page same as second English edition, with

First Published 1903.

New Edition, October, 1914.

New Impression, January, 1915.

New Edition, January, 1926.

In center and

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY

BILLING AND SONS, LTD., GUILDFORD AND ESHER

at bottom of verso, pp [iii-iv];

PREFACE pp v-xi;
p [xii] blank;
table of CONTENTS, verso blank, pp xiii-[xiv];
author’s note, verso blank, pp xv-[xvi];
text pp [l]-280;
white endpapers;
all edges trimmed;
binding, like title page, identical with previous Heinemann edition, the plates of which were used for the preface and text through p 216.

In the author’s note, new to this edition, GM says, “the new edition of The Untilled Field will allow me to seek an outline that eluded me in the first version of ‘The Wild Goose’; and should I find the needed outline, the story will become, perhaps, dearer to me than the twelve [sic] that precede it and that need no correction.” Actually there are fourteen stories in all, thirteen preceding “The Wild Goose,” which was completely rewritten and much shortened for this final version.

A26-e Fourth English edition, revised

Title Page

[Same as A26-c]

Launch

Published 22 May 1931 at 7/6 in format similar to second and third English editions (A26-c and A26-d)

Description

Height: 7 3/8 in; 7.38 in; 18.73 cm

Width: 4 3/4 in; 4.75 in; 12.07 cm

[ ]8, A-R8, S4; T-U8; pp [2], xviii, 312, comprising:

blank leaf, not paginated;
half title, with list of WORKS BY GEORGE MOORE on verso, pp [i-ii];
title page same as second and third English editions with addition of LTD. to publisher’s imprint, with publication dates, plus “New Edition, April, 1931” and printer’s imprint as in third edition, on verso, pp [iii-iv];
author’s note, now dated “January 1926,” verso blank, pp v-[vi];
PUBLISHER’S NOTE, verso blank, pp vii-[viii];
PREFACE pp ix-xv;
p [xvi] blank;
table of CONTENTS, verso blank, pp xvii-[xviii];
text pp [1]-310; pp [311-12] blank;
white endpapers;
top and fore edges trimmed, bottom edges untrimmed;
binding identical with previous Heinemann editions;

The plates of the 1926 edition have been used for the preface (repaginated) and text through p 280.

The “Publisher’s Note,” possibly written by GM, states, “The first English edition of The Untilled Field (1903) contained two stories: ‘In the Clay’ and ‘The Way Back,’ which were removed from the second (1914) and subsequent editions. In the present edition the author has included a new tale, ‘Fugitives,’ based upon the subject matter of the other two, and here printed for the first time.”

The text of this edition, enlarged 125 percent, was reproduced by photo-offset for:

A26-e2 Colin Smythe edition

Colin Smythe Ltd., Gerrards Cross, 21 June 1976, in an edition of 1,250 copies, plus 750 for Macmillan of Canada/Maclean-Hunter Press. There is a “Foreword” by T.R. Henn, GM’s “Preface” (reset) from the 1914 edition (A26-c), the author’s note (reset) added to 1926 edition (A26-d), the publisher’s note (reset) of the 1931 edition (A26-e), and two “Appendices” — “In the Clay” and “The Way Back” (reset) from first edition (A26-a). The final text had previously been used for:

A26-2e Heinemann Uniform Edition

Uniform Edition, Heinemann, London, December 1932 (dated 1933 on title page). Reissued in a different binding as:

A26-2e2 Ebury Edition

Ebury Edition, Heinemann, March 1937.

Bibliographical Comment

In addition to the previously noted Gaelic versions (D:Ga-l, D:Ga-2, D:Ga-3, and D:Ga-4), see D:Cz-l for Czech translations of “A Letter to Rome,” “A Play-house in the Waste,” and “The Qerk’s Quest”; D:Ge-l, D:Ge-2, D:Ge-4, and D:Ge-14 for German translations of “Home Sickness,” “The Wedding Gown,” “The Window,” and “The Wild Goose.” A French translation, Champ Sterile, Paris, Stock, 1923, “avec une préface d’Ed Jaloux,” listed (p 217) by G. P. Collet in George Moore et La France (B58) and again by Jean C. Noel in George Moore: L ’Homme et L’Oeuvre (B60), has proven to be a ghost.

I am indebted to Prof. Roger Lhombreaud for attempting to trace the title in France and for determining that it had “not been published by Stock or any other publisher.” The listing of this title by M. Collet and M. Noel may possibly be accounted for by the fact that in 1923 Stock did publish Le Lac (D:Fr-21), with a preface by Jaloux, and that GM originally intended The Lake to be a part of The Untilled Field.

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