pp [335-36] blank;
white endpapers;
top and fore edges trimmed, bottom edges untrimmed;
bound in red cloth, publisher’s windmill device, with initials, within single-rule box, as on title page, on center of back cover in blind, front cover gilt lettered:

The Lake

George Moore

and spine gilt lettered:

The

Lake

George

Moore

Heinemann

Previously unpublished. Intended as a part of The Untilled Field (A26), the story “proved to be too long and perhaps too complex” to be included in that volume (Hone, p 247). Sheets of this edition, but with preliminary sheets of second edition (A27-c), were reissued later in both bright red and a cheaper lighter red cloth. Sheets of this edition, with preliminaries reset and a 16-page gathering of advertisements added at end with final leaf serving as rear paste-down endpaper, were used for:

A27-a2 Heinemann’s Colonial Library

Heinemann’s Colonial Library, No. 317, London, 1905. When sheets of first edition were exhausted, sheets of the second English edition (A27-c) were used for the series (see A27-c2).

A27-2a First American edition

Title Page

THE LAKE

GEORGE MOORE

AUTHOR OF “EVELYN INNESS,” [sic] I “ESTHER WALTERS,” [sic, corrected in later impressions] ETC.

publisher’s device

NEW YORK

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

1906

Launch

Published 17 February 1906 at $1.50

Description

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

Width: 5 in; 12.7 cm

[1]8, 2-208; pp [iv], 316, comprising:

half title, verso blank, pp [i-ii]:
title page, with

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Published February 1906

on verso, pp [iii-iv];

text pp 1-309

First impression is designated by a small numeral one in parentheses [(1)] at the foot of the last page of text. Later impressions are indicated by succeeding numbers, indicating the number of the impression. Also the second misprint (WALTERS for WATERS) on the title page is corrected in later impressions;

p [310] blank;
publisher’s advertisements pp [311-16];
white endpapers;
all edges trimmed;
bound in light green ribbed cloth, back cover plain, single-rule border in blind on front cover, which is stamped in white:

THE LAKE

George Moore

all within single-rule border with rounded corners

and spine lettered in white:

THE

LAKE

Moore

Appletons

The text is the same as the first edition (A27-a), but with the dedicatory letter to Edouard Dujardin omitted. Text pages of this edition were reproduced by photo-offset for a paperbound padded edition:

A27-2a2 Carroll & Graff edition

Carroll & Graff, Inc., New York, [1986]. Published 22 April 1986 at $8.95, without any indication of original publication date, previous printings or subsequent revised editions.

A27-b Continental edition, revised

Title Page

THE LAKE

GEORGE MOORE

AUTHOR OF “EVELYN INNES,” “SISTER TERESA,” “CONFESSIONS

OF A YOUNG MAN,” ETC.

REVISED FOR THE TAUCHNITZ EDITION

LEIPZIG

BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ

1906

Launch

[Not provided by Gilcher]

Description

Height: 6 1/2 in; 6.5 in; 16.51 cm

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

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

half title, with list of five books “By the same author” on verso, pp [1-2];
title page, verso blank, pp [3-4];
dedicatory letter A EDOUARD DUJARDIN, pp [5]-6;
text pp [7]-303;
PRINTING HOUSE OF THE PUBLISHER, in center of p [304];
followed by a 32-page inserted publisher’s catalogue;
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. 3863.

THE LAKE BY GEORGE MOORE.

IN ONE VOLUME

and spine lettered in black as in the Tauchnitz Edition of The Untilled Field (A26-b) except for volume number, the figure following author’s name, 7., and title

THE

LAKE.

As stated on the title page, this is a revised text with the minor revisions occurring chiefly in chapter XIV, and although this edition was issued later than the second English edition (a27-c) it precedes it textually.

A27-c Second English edition, revised

Title Page

[Not provided by Gilcher, same as A27-a]

Launch

Published late November 1906 at 6/- in a format similar to the first edition (A27-a). This edition precedes the first American (A27-2a) and Tauchnitz (A27-b) editions chronologically, but is a later text.

Description

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

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

[ ]4, 1-198, 204; pp [2], vi, 312, comprising:

blank leaf, not paginated;
half title, with a list of ten “New 6s. Novels.” on verso, pp [i-ii];
title page same as first edition (A27-a), with

First printed, November, 1905

Second Impression, November, 1905

in center and copyright notices at foot of verso as in first edition, except first two lines are transposed, pp [iii-iv];

dedicatory letter as in first edition p [v]-vi;
text pp [1]-311, with printer’s imprint as in first edition (p 334) at foot of p 311; p [312] blank;
endpapers, edges and binding identical with first edition.

There are minor revisions throughout and from page 101 to page 186 the text is rewritten, with a new chapter VII replacing chapters VII-XI of first edition. In a letter to Edmund Gosse, accompanying a presentation copy of this edition, GM wrote regarding the revisions, “You advised me to revise the middle chapters, suggesting that the correspondence might be carried on between the two priests. That was all and that was enough.” – The Library of Edmund Gosse, p 186 (B31).

Sheets of this edition were later issued in blue cloth binding. Sheets of this edition, with preliminaries partially reset and a 16-page gathering of advertisements added at end with final leaf serving as rear paste-down endpaper, were used for:

A27-c2 Heinemann’s Colonial Library

Heinemann’s Colonial Library, No. 317, London, 1905. Remainder sheets of first edition (A27-a) were first used for this series (A27-a2), but apparently the demand continued after these were exhausted and sheets of the second edition (A27-c) were used. Outwardly the two issues are identical.

A27-d Third English edition, revised

Title Page

THE LAKE

GEORGE MOORE

19 [publisher's windmill device] 21

rule which is also base of device

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

Launch

Published November 1921 at 7/6. This seems to be the correct date, in spite of “New Edition, February, 1921” on verso of title leaf, as Publishers’ Circular lists it as having been published in November, it was reviewed 1 December 1921 among “New Books” in Times Literary Supplement, and no earlier mention has been located.

Description

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

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

[ ]6, 1-178, [18]2 (tipped in); pp [2], x, 276, comprising:

blank leaf, not paginated;
half title, with list of thirteen titles “By the Same Author” on verso, pp [i-ii];
title page, with

First printed, November, 1905

Second Impression, November, 1905

New Edition, February, 1921

in center and

LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN 1921

in lower left comer of verso, pp [iii-iv];

ÉPîTRE DÉDICATOIRE pp v-vi;
PREFACE pp vii-x;
text pp [l]-273, with

Printed in Great Britain by Billing and Sons, Ltd., Guildford and Esher

at foot of p 273;

pp [274-76] blank;
white endpapers;
top and fore edges trimmed, bottom edges untrimmed;
bound in dark blue cloth, publisher’s circular monogram device in blind in lower right corner of back cover, front cover blind stamped with large elongated paneled design enclosed within double-rule box

At least one copy has back cover blank and an inserted 16-page publisher’s catalogue at end which lists, among other books by GM, The Confessions of a Dead [sic] Man.,

and spine gilt lettered

THE

LAKE

GEORGE

MOORE

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

HEINEMANN

The normal binding has three scallops at top and bottom of the spine, but Florian J. Shasky has a copy in his collection which has only two, as on the binding of the 1918 and 1926 Heinemann editions of Confessions of a Young Man (A12-2d and A12-2d2).

“Épître Dédicatoire” is a dedicatory letter, “A Edouard Dujardin,” of previous editions; the “Preface” is new; and text is rewritten, with two of the principal characters. Rose Leicester and Ralph Ellis, renamed Nora Glynn and Walter Poole.

This final revised text was used when The Lake was included with The Unfilled Field in:

A27-2d Carra Edition

Carra Edition, Volume VIII, Boni and Liveright, New York, 1923, previously noted (A26-2c). The final text also was used for:

A27-3d Heinemann Uniform Edition

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

A27-3d2 Ebury Edition

Ebury Edition, Heinemann, London, September 1936.

A27-4d Colin Smythe edition

Colin Smythe, Gerrards Cross, 1980 [26 January 1981], with an “Afterword” by Richard Allen Cave, in an edition of 823 copies issued in hardback and 2,524 in paperback. Included are “Épître dédicatoire” reprinted from first edition (A27-a), “Preface” and text of third English edition (A27-d). Dr. Cave’s “Afterword” and three “Appendices”:

Chapter IX from first edition (A27-a)
Father Gogarty’s dinner party from chapter VII of second English edition (A27-c)
‘King and Hermit’ and ‘The Monk and His Pet Cat’ translated by Kuno Meyer, portions of which GM had incorporated, with minor changes, into chapter VIII.

Bibliographical Note

See D:Fr-21 for a French translation; and D:It-2 for an Italian one.

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