title page, with “Copyright, 1917, by Brentano’s” in center of verso, pp [iii-v];
PREFACE pp v-xi;
p [xii] blank;
text pp 1-320;
front endpapers white, rear endpapers part of final gathering;
top edges trimmed and stained dark green, fore and bottom edges untrimmed;
bound in green ribbed cloth, back and front covers plain,
gilt decorations at top and bottom of flat spine, which is gilt lettered

LEWIS

SEYMOUR

AND SOME

WOMEN

GEORGE

MOORE

BRENTANO’S

Text is a further rewriting of A Modern Lover (A5), and although most characters, many incidents, and much of the dialogue of the earlier book is retained, it is described by GM in the new “Preface” as being a “new book from end to end.” Five chapters are added, eight chapters of the original story are omitted, and the latter half of the book is largely rewritten. One new portion in chapter XXI is based on “Souvenir sur Mallarmé” in Parsifal, April 1909.

Later impressions have a different imposition:

[1-20]8, [21]4, [22]2 (tipped in);
with list of nine titles on verso of half title leaf in NEW AND UNIFORM (in place of REVISED) EDITION;
publisher’s device on title page in orange,
rear endpapers separate and not a part of the final gathering,
and bound in a darker green cloth with a rounded spine.

A36-2a First English edition

Title Page

LEWIS SEYMOUR

AND SOME WOMEN

GEORGE MOORE

publisher's windmill device, flanked by letters W and H, within a single-rule box

LONDON

WILLIAM HEINEMANN

Launch

Published March 1917 at 6/-. At least six copies were printed, of what might be called an “advance unpublished state,” dated 1916 on verso of title leaf, some bound in white paper wrappers lettered in black on front cover

LEWIS SEYMOUR

AND

SOME WOMEN

and others bound in the same binding used for the regular edition.

These copies have two unsigned gatherings, [ ]4 and [ ]1 (tipped in), in place of the unsigned gathering [ ]6;
the PREFACE is on pp v-x;
and there are textual differences on pp vi-viii, 26, 59, 73-74, 90, 95-96, 104-105, 108, 114-115, 126-128, 199, 200, 220, 248-249, 257, 260-263, 265, 268, 270, 274-277, 279-285, and 310;
plus differences in paragraphing, capitalization, and setting throughout.

One of these copies, listed in Volume III (p 158) of The Ashley Library: A Catalogue of Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters, privately printed, London, 1923, is inscribed, “This is one of six copies of Lewis Seymour and Some Women printed without alterations from the author’s Manuscript. The book was, however, never issued in this form; certain passages were excised, and others rewritten in the version finally published. C.S. Evans, General Manager to William Heinemann.”

Description

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

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

[ ]6, A-T8, U2 (tipped in), [u]1 (tipped in between U1 and U2); pp xii, 310, comprising:

half title, with list of WORKS OF GEORGE MOORE on verso, pp [i-ii];
title page, with LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN. 1917. at foot of verso, pp [iii-iv];
PREFACE pp v-xi;
p [xii] blank;
text pp [1]-310 with

BILLING AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, GUILDFORD, ENGLAND

at foot p 310;

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

LEWIS

SEYMOUR

AND

SOME

WOMEN

GEORGE

MOORE

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

HEINEMANN

Same as first edition (A36-a), except for last-minute revisions made by GM on the page proofs, including three additional lines in French on the final page of text which are found in no other printing, including the “advance unpublished state” and subsequent impressions of this edition issued April 1917 and October 1928, the latter with further slight revisions and with new imposition: [1]8, 2-198, 2010; pp xii, 312.

Sheets of the April 1917 impression were used for:

A36-2a2 Heinemann’s Colonial Library

Heinemann’s Colonial Library, London, 1917. The first edition text also was used for:

A36-3a Standard Collection

Standard Collection, No. 80, Conard, Paris, 1918.

A36-4a Second American (Carra) edition

Title Page

LEWIS SEYMOUR

AND SOME WOMEN

GEORGE MOORE

rule

Carra Edition

rule

PRINTED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY BY

BONI AND LIVERIGHT, INC., NEW YORK

1922

Launch

Published 18 December 1922 at $8.50 in an edition of 1,000 copies plus 25 copies not for sale lettered A to Y.

Description

Height: 8 3/4 in; 8.75 in; 22.23 cm

Width: 5 1/2 in; 5.5 in; 13.97 cm

[1]10, [2-19]8; pp xl, 268, comprising:

blank leaf, pp [i-ii];
half titie, with reproduction of an Alvin Langdon Cobum photograph of GM tipped on verso, pp [iii-iv];
followed by a protective tissue guard sheet, not paginated;
title page, with

LEWIS SEYMOUR AND SOME

WOMEN

(Carra Edition)

rule

Boni & Liveright, Inc.

rule

Printed in the United States of America

in center of verso, pp [v-vi];

EPISTLE DEDICATORY, verso blank, pp [vii-viii];
notice of limitation, verso blank, pp [ix-x];

This edition consists of 1000 numbered sets

of twenty-one volumes each. The first vol-

ume is numbered, and signed by the author.

This set is No… [number stamped in blue]

George Moore [signed in ink]

APOLOGIA PRO SCRIPTIS MEIS pp xi-xxxiii;
p [xxxiv] blank;
PREFACE pp xxxv-xxxix;
p [xl] blank;
text pp 1-265;
pp [266-268] blank;
grayish-blue paper-covered board sides, matching endpapers;
white paper label on spine, printed in black, except as noted:

Lewis

Seymour

and Some

Women

decorative rule

George Moore [in red]

decorative rule

Carra Edition

Volume I

two plain rules, with decorative rule between, all in red, at both top and bottom

“Epistle Dedicatory to Thomas Ruttledge,” dedicating the Carra Edition to GM’s “oldest and dearest friend,” who also served as agent for his Irish properties.

“Apologia pro scriptis meis” – completely different from the preface to the first American edition of Memoirs of My Dead Life (A29-2a) – the general introduction to the Carra Edition, was previously published in the Fortnightly Review, October 1922.

“Preface” is the same as the first edition (A36-a above) except for the omission of the final nine words of the second paragraph.

The text of the novel is the same as the first edition.

The Carra Edition of twenty-one volumes, plus two supplementary volumes in a matching format, were printed on paper watermarked with a facsimile of GM’s signature. Eighteen of the volumes have tipped-in frontispieces, sixteen being reproductions of photographs, paintings or sketches of GM. The Carra Edition includes:

[Formatted as an ordered list to facilitate reading]

Lewis Seymour and Some Women (A36-4a)
A Mummer's Wife (A6-3c)
Muslin (A34-3a)
Spring Days (A13-3b)
Esther Waters (A19-2c)
Evelyn Inness [sic] (A22-3a)
Sister Teresa (A25-3a)
The Untilled Field (A26-2c) and The Lake (A27-2d) in one volume
Confessions of a Young Man (A12-e) and Avowals (A38-3a) in one volume
Memoirs of My Dead Life (A29-3d)
Hail and Farewell Ave (A31-I-4a)
Hail and Farewell Salve (A31-II-4a)
Hail and Farewell Vale (A31-III-3a)
A Story-Teller's Holiday (A37-3a)
Heloise and Abelard Vol I (A40-2b)
Heloise and Abelard Vol II (A40-2b)
The Brook Kerith (A35-4a)
In Single Strictness (A44-b);
Modern Painting (A17-b4)
Conversations in Ebury Street (A46-2a)
Daphnis and Chloe (A49-2a) and Perronik [sic] the Fool (A50-a) in one volume
Pure Poetry (A47-2a) issued as a supplementary volume in a format and on paper matching the Carra Edition, although not actually a part of it, but unnumbered copies were included with remaindered sets.
Ulick and Soracha (A51-2a) issued as a supplementary volume in a format and on paper matching the Carra Edition, although not actually a part of it, but unnumbered copies were included with remaindered sets.

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