B11 Tales about Temperaments

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B11-a First edition

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Contribution by GM

B11-2a First American edition

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Contribution by GM

B11-a First edition

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TALES ABOUT

TEMPERAMENTS

THE WORM THAT GOD PREPARED.

’TIS AN ILL FLIGHT WITHOUT WINGS

A REPENTANCE .............

PRINCE TOTO ...................

JOURNEYS END IN LOVERS MEETING .

BY

JOHN OLIVER HOBBES

LONDON

T. FISHER UNWIN

PATERNOSTER SQUARE

1902

Launch

[Not provided by Gilcher]

Description

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

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

[  ]4, A-K8; pp [viii], 160,

• white endpapers;
• top edges gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed;
• bound in green cloth, back cover plain, front cover has four vertical rules in gray, of varying lengths, with decoration at top of each, and gilt lettered in upper left comer

TALES ABOUT

TEMPERAMENTS

JOHN OLIVER

HOBBES

• and spine lettered in gilt

TALES

ABOUT

TEMPER-

AMENTS

JOHN

OLIVER

HOBBES

T. FISHER UNWIN

Contribution by GM

“Journeys End in Lovers Meeting” pp 135-158. GM collaborated with John Oliver Hobbes (Mrs. Pearl Craigie) on this one-act play, based on a French play by Caraquell, and although his name is not mentioned in this printing, he was listed as co-author on the playbill and in contemporary

reviews when it was presented in London by Ellen Terry, 5 June 1894, at Daly’s Theatre and later at the Lyceum Theatre. “According to Moore’s account he not only provided the idea for the play … he wrote it out, dialogue and all, the lady only adding some pretty little epigrams and

speeches” (Hone, pp 202-3).

B11-2a First American edition

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TALES ABOUT

TEMPERAMENTS

BY

JOHN OLIVER HOBBES

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NEW YORK

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

1902

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Published August 1902 in Town and Country Library at $1.00 in cloth and 50¢ in wrappers. Advertised in wrappers, but no copy located.

Description

Height: 7 in; 17.78 cm

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

[1]®, 2-148; pp x, 214;

• white endpapers;
• all edges trimmed;
• bound in russet cloth, back cover plain, front cover stamped in black and red, with decoration in upper right corner representing overlapping town and country seals with “T&C’ in red superimposed over them

[four red ornaments] TALES

[four red ornaments] ABOUT

TEMPERAMENTS

• and spine stamped in black and gilt

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TALES

ABOUT

TEMPERAMENTS

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HOBBES

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APPLETONS

The first impression is designated by a small numeral one in parenthesis [(1)] at foot of p 207, the last page of text; later impressions are indicated by succeeding numbers, agreeing with the number of the impression.

Contribution by GM

“Journeys End in Lovers Meeting” pp 179-207, text same as first edition (B11-a).