14. John Ingerfield, and Other Stories

4 1-148. Pp. i-v vi vii-viii 1-2 3-220 [4].
Contents: i half-title: JOHN INGERFIELD / AND OTHER STORIES; ii By the Same Author / IDLE THOUGHTS OF AN IDLE FELLOW / NOVEL NOTES / STAGELAND; iii title-page; iv blank; v-vi TO THE GENTLE READER; / also / TO THE GENTLE CRITIC.; vii CONTENTS; viii blank; 1 half-title I. / IN REMEMBRANCE OF JOHN / INGERFIELD, AND OF / ANNE, HIS WIFE.; 2 blank; 3 4-90 I. / IN REMEMBRANCE OF JOHN / INGERFIELD, AND OF / ANNE, HIS WIFE. / A STORY OF OLD LONDON, IN TWO / CHAPTERS. ; 91-137 II. THE WOMAN OF THE SÆTER.; 138 blank; 139-71 III. VARIETY PATTER.; 172 blank; 173-202 IV. SILHOUETTES.; 203-20 V. THE LEASE OF THE / “CROSS KEYS.”; [at foot of 220: [short rule] Hazell, Watson, & Viney, Ld., London & Aylesbury.; [1] advertisement for three other McClure publications; [4] blank.
Printed on watermarked laid paper, chain lines vertical, size 160 x 92mm. Edges uncut.
Frontispiece, by J. Gülich, faces title-page; plates by J. Gülich face pp. 24, 50, 76, 141, 175; by A. S. Boyd, 93, 120, 205.
*Dull green cloth, gilt lettered on front and spine; spine: John / Ingerfield / and Other / Stories / Jerome K. / Jerome / Mc.Clure / & Co.
All stories except “John Ingerfield” appeared previously in The Idler: “The Woman of the Sæter,” The Idler 3, no. 6 (July 1893): 578-93; “Variety Patter,” The Idler 1, no. 2 (March 1892): 123-35; “Silhouettes,” The Idler 1, no. 1 (February 1892): 47-56; “The Lease of the ‘Cross Keys’,” is repeated almost verbatim from an “Idler’s Club” anecdote, The Idler 2, no. 3 (October 1892): 340-43.
Listed in English Catalogue, December 1893, 2/-; advertised as “just published” in To-Day, 2 December 1893; reviewed in Athenaeum, 3 February 1894, 146.
Copies seen: FR; APR (5); Bodleian Library – 256 f.897; University of Illinois Library.
—-Another copy, specially bound and gilt-edged. Front portion of dust jacket enclosed: JOHN INGERFIELD / [illustration of boy seated by window, as in plate facing p. 175, but within brown wood-framed rectangles] / JEROME K. JEROME
Copies seen: Bodleian library – Arch H e.154, Jerome’s copy with dedication: ‘To Her who has ever / been the model from / whom I have drawn / – with variations – my good women, with grateful love / Jerome K. Jerome’.
*Also issued with buff paper cover; spine: [rule] / JEROME / [rule] / JOHN / INGER- / FIELD / London / 1894 / [rule] / 1/6; on back cover: ornamental McClure monogram.
Copies seen: FR; APR (2).

Unsigned, 14 2-158. Pp. i-iv v-vi 1-3 4-224 [2].
Contents: i half-title: I. / JOHN INGERFIELD.; ii list of other Jerome titles in Holt’s Author’s Edition; iii title-page; iv COPYRIGHT, 1893, 1894 / BY / JEROME K. JEROME. / THE MERSHON COMPANY PRESS / RAHWAY, N. J.; v-vi TO THE GENTLE READER; / ALSO / TO THE GENTLE CRITIC. / [short rule]; 1‘CONTENTS. / [short rule]; 2 blank; 3 4-224 text; [1] JEROME K. JEROME’S NOVEL NOTES / With 140 half-tone illustrations, 12mo, / cloth, $1.25.; [2] SARAH BARNWELL ELLIOTT’S NOVELS. / Uniform edition, 12mo, cloth, $1.25.. Printed on laid paper, chain lines vertical, size 154 x 93mm. Top edge gilt, fore-edge and bottom edge uncut. Each story begins with a decorated initial. Frontispiece (portrait) faces title-page; 9 plates: by J. Gülich face pp. 4, 24, 50, 78, 146, 184; by A. S. Boyd, 116, 122, 210.
**Grey-brown cloth, lettered in black on front and spine; spine: John / Inger- / field / [short rule] / JEROME / [ornament] / HENRY HOLT &CO.
Listed in Publisher’s Weekly 1152, 24 February 1894; American Catalog 1890-95, 75¢.; reviewed in New York Times, 25 February 1894, 23.
Copies seen: FR; APR; University of Illinois Library – spine ‘HENRY HOLT & Co.’

4 1-148. Pp. i-v vi vii-viii 1-2 3-220 [4].
Contents: i half-title: JOHN INGERFIELD / AND OTHER STORIES; ii blank; iii title-page; iv [short rule] / Printed at the Mercat Press, Edinburgh; v-vi vii-viii 1-2 3-220 text; [1-4] NEW · NOVELS · FOR · 1912
Text printed from the plates ofs the 1893 McClure edition.
Printed on laid paper, chain lines vertical, size 148 x 98mm.
Frontispiece, by J. Gülich, faces title-page; plates by J. Gülich face pp. 24, 50, 76, 141, 175; by A. S. Boyd, 93, 120, 205.
*Red cloth, with gilt lettering and embossed blocking on front and spine; spine: JOHN INGER- / FIELD / JEROME K. / JEROME / FRANK / PALMER / LONDON.
Listed in English Catalogue, April, 1912, 1/-.
Copies seen: FR; APR (3).
—-Another copy, blue cloth; no gilt lettering, blocking in black, not embossed. [1921 printing?].
Copies seen: APR; Walsall Public Library.