B2 Piping Hot
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B2 Piping Hot
Table of Contents
B2-a First edition
Title Page
PIPING HOT!
(POT-BOUILLE).
A REALISTIC NOVEL.
BY
ÉMILE ZOLA.
TRANSLATED FROM THE 63RD FRENCH EDITION.
Illustrated with Sixteen Page Engravings,
FROM DESIGNS BY GEORGES BELLINGER.
LONDON:
VIZETELLY & CO., 42 CATHERINE STREET, STRAND.
1885.
Launch
Published autumn 1884 at 6/-
Description
Height: 7 1/2 in; 7.5 in; 19.05 cm
Width: 5 in; 12.7 cm
a8, A6, B-2A8: pp [2], xviii, 9-384 plus fourteen inserted engravings not paginated;
- followed by an inserted 20-page publisher’s catalogue dated DECEMBER, 1884.;
- endpapers brown flowered where facing;
- all edges untrimmed; bound in blue cloth,
- brown cloth according to Danielson, but no copy in brown has been located
- back cover plain except for triple-rule border in blind, front cover gilt stamped
PIPING HOT!
A REALISTIC NOVEL
illustration on red background within an ornamental frame in black
BY ÉMILE ZOLA.
ILLUSTRATED
- and spine stamped with four red rules at top and bottom, gilt lettered
PIPING
HOT!
ÉMILE ZOLA
ILLUSTRATED
VIZETELLY & CO.
Contribution by GM
“Preface” pp v-xviii. The translation, including the GM “Preface,” was reissued by Vizetelly in a number of different bindings, some without the inserted illustrations.
In addition to having written the “Preface,” there is also the possibility that GM may have translated the book. Albert J. Fanner in “George Moore et les influences françaises,” a chapter in his book Le Mouvement Esthétique et “Décadent’ en Angleterre, Paris, 1931, says (p 87), without giving a source for his statement, that GM translated Pot-Bouille for Vizetelly and in the book’s bibliography (p 396) also lists Rush for the Spoil as having been translated by GM. Further, Hone, in discussing the prosecution of Vizetelly for publishing Nana, The Soil, and Piping Hot says (p 157), also without giving a source for his statement, that GM “was the author
of one of the translations.” As Piping Hot appears to be the only one of the three with which GM had any connection, it seems reasonable that, if in fact he did make one of the translations, this must be it. Also the article on GM in Volume III of Chambers Cyclopedia of English Literature says, “In 1885 a translation of Zola’s Pot Bouille expressly avowed the direction which Moore’s artistic and literary sympathies had now taken.”
B2-2a Second edition
Title page
[Not provided by Gilcher]
Launch
1886 at 7/6
Description
Height: 9 5/8 in; 9.63 in; 24.45 cm
Width: 6 1/2 in; 6.5 in; 16.51 cm
[a]2 (tipped in), A-O8, P2 (tipped in), [Q]1 (tipped in), plus 47 inserted plates counted in pagination; pp xvi, 314.
- Illustrated with 104 Engravings and Designs by French Artists
- published by Vizetelly from a new setting of type
For a more detailed description see No. 48 in Danielson (p 48).
Contribution by GM
Same as B2-a.
3a Abridged edition
Title Page
[Not provided by Gilcher]
Launch
September 1961
Description
Lesson in Love by Émile Zola, “a newly abridged translation of Pot-Bouille,” 288 pages, padded, paperbound. Pyramid Books, New York.
Contribution by GM
Reprints the GM “Preface” as an “Introduction” with all references to Piping Hot changed to Lesson in Love and, in abridged form, the translation of the first edition text (B2-a).
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