18. Sketches in Lavender Blue and Green

4 1-228 234. Pp. [6] 1 2-360.
Contents: [1] half-title: SKETCHES IN LAVENDER / BLUE AND GREEN; [2] ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY PRESS; [3] title-page; [4] blank; [5] La-ven-der’s blue, did-dle, did-dle! [etc.]; [6] blank; [7] CONTENTS.; [8] blank; 1 2-19 SKETCHES IN LAVENDER. / REGINALD BLAKE, FINANCIER AND CAD.; 20-56 AN ITEM OF FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.; 57-81 BLASÉ BILLY.; 82-104 THE CHOICE OF CYRIL HARJOHN.; 105-28 THE MATERIALISATION OF CHARLES AND / MIVANWAY.; 129-52 PORTRAIT OF A LADY.; 153-67 THE MAN WHO WOULD MANAGE.; 168-81 THE MAN WHO LIVED FOR OTHERS.; 182-98 A MAN OF HABIT.; 199-212 THE ABSENT-MINDED MAN; 213-24 A CHARMING WOMAN.; 225-40 WHIBLEY’S SPIRIT.; 241-58 THE MAN WHO WENT WRONG.; 259-73 THE HOBBY RIDER.; 274-92 THE MAN WHO DID NOT BELIEVE IN LUCK.; 293-308 DICK DUNKERMAN’S CAT.; 309-26 THE MINOR POET’S STORY.; 327-37 THE DEGENERATION OF THOMAS HENRY.; 338-48 THE CITY OF THE SEA.; 349-60 DRIFTWOOD.
Printed on wove paper, size 186 x 123mm.
Inserted after p. 360 is a 32pp. list: MESSRS. LONGMANS, GREEN & CO.’S / CLASSIFIED CATALOGUE / OF / WORKS IN GENERAL LITERATURE.
Patterned endpapers, with repeated design of swan, sailing ship and date 1726.
*Dull greenish-blue cloth, with gilt lettering on front and spine; spine: [blind-stamped double rule] / SKETCHES / IN / LAVENDER / BLUE / AND GREEN / [short rule] / JEROME K./ JEROME / [blind-stamped double rule] / LONGMANS & C°.
Many of the stories were previously serialized in To-Day and The Idler (see details in listing of periodical contributions); “Dick Dunkerman’s Cat” first appeared in City Chimes; the Birmingham Magazine, Illustrated, December 1895.
Listed in English Catalogue, May 1897, 6/-; reviewed in Saturday Review, 83 (5 June 1897): 639-40.
Copies seen: FR; APR (10); Bodleian Library – Arch H e.166 – on half-title “Ettie, Jerome K. Jerome”.

Unsigned, 14 2-228 234. Pp. i-iv v-vii viii 1-3 4-337 338 [6].
Contents: i half-title: SKETCHES IN LAVENDER, BLUE, / AND GREEN; ii list of other Jerome titles in Holt’s Author’s Edition; iii title-page; iv COPYRIGHT, 1897, / BY / HENRY HOLT & CO. / THE MERSHON COMPANY PRESS, / RAHWAY, N.J.; v CONTENTS. / [short rule] (in two groups: TALES and CHARACTERSCAPES); vi blank; vii FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS (lists frontispiece and plates facing pp. 6, 34, 74, 82, 98, 110, 140, 146 and 176); viii La-ven-der’s blue, did-dle, did-dle! [etc.]; 1 half-title TALES.; 2 blank; 3 4-23 SKETCHES IN LAVENDER , BLUE / AND GREEN. / [short rule] THE MATERIALIZATION OF / CHARLES AND MIVANWAY.; 24-44 THE CHOICE OF CYRIL HARJOHN.; 45-66 BLASÉ BILLY.; 67-87 PORTRAIT OF A LADY.; 88-120 AN ITEM OF FASHIONABLE / INTELLIGENCE. 121-35 DICK DUNKERMAN’S CAT.; 136-53 REGINALD BLAKE, FINANCIER / AND CAD.; 154-72 THE MINOR POET’S STORY.; 173-83 THE CITY OF THE SEA.; 184 blank; 185 half-title CHARACTERSCAPES.; 186 blank; 187-203 THE MAN WHO WENT WRONG.; 204-23 THE MAN WHO DID NOT / BELIEVE IN LUCK.; 224-40 WHIBLEY’S SPIRIT.; 241-50 THE DEGENERATION OF / THOMAS HENRY.; 251-66 THE MAN WHO WOULD / MANAGE.; 267-80 THE MAN WHO LIVED FOR / OTHERS.; 281-96 THE MAN OF HABIT.; 297-311 THE ABSENT-MINDED MAN.; 312-23 A CHARMING WOMAN.; 324-37 THE HOBBY RIDER.; 338 blank; [6] advertisements for Henry Holt & Co.’s newest books, May, 1897.’
The collection omits “Driftwood,” the final piece in the Longmans, Green edition.
Each chapter begins with a decorative initial. The plates and illustrations are from the original serialized versions in To-Day and Idler.
Printed on wove paper, 186 x 126mm.
Endpapers patterned with a green leafy design.
*Dull blue cloth, with gilt lettering on front and spine; spine: SKETCHES / IN / LAVENDER / BLUE AND / GREEN / [short rule] / JEROME / HENRY HOLT & Cº..
Listed in Publisher’s Weekly 1350, 15 May 1897; American Catalog 1895-1900, $1.25; reviewed in New York Times (Saturday Review of Books and Art), 5 June 1897, 5.
Copies seen: FR; APR (2); Library of Congress.