22. The Observations of Henry

18 2-128. Pp. 1-8 9-186 [6].
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Printed on wove paper, size 160 x 102mm.
**Dark brown cloth, with black lettering on front, gilt on spine; spine: [rule] / OBSER- / VATIONS / OF / HENRY / JEROME K. / JEROME / [rule]
Listed in English Catalogue, March 1901, 1/6.
Copies seen: FR; APR (4); Boston Public Library.
Reprinted 1918 as “New edition,” price 1/-
Also issued in paperback, price 1/-.
Cover yellow and red, lettered in black on yellow front, in yellow on red blocks in upper corners and at foot.
Copies seen: APR.

?4 1-118 124. Pp. [8] 1-3 4-182 183-84.
Contents: [1] half-title: The Observations of Henry; [2] blank; [3] title-page; [4] Copyright, 1901, / BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY / Copyright, 1898 and 1900, / BY JEROME K. JEROME / [short rule] / UNIVERSITY PRESS · JOHN WILSON / AND SON · CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.; [5] Contents; [6] blank; [7] Illustrations; [8] blank; 1-182 text (each story has half-title); 183-84 blank.
Printed on laid paper, chain lines vertical, size 180 x 119mm.
Coloured frontispiece inserted after ?.1, and coloured plates face pp. 34 (listed on [7] as 35), 64, 102, 126, 162.
*Green cloth, lettered in white on front and spine; spine: THE / OBSERVA? / TIONS / OF / HENRY / [short rule] / JEROME / K. JEROME / DODD, MEAD / & COMPANY
Listed in Publisher’s Weekly 1523, 6 April 1901; American Catalog 1900-1905, $1.25; reviewed in New York Times, 20 April 1901, 9:1.
Copies seen: FR (2); APR; Library of Congress – copyright entry 19 February 1901, acquisition date 27 March 1901; Bodleian Library – Arch H e.160; Arch H e.161 with title-page dedication: ‘From the Author / to his Sweetheart / May 1901’; University of Miami Library.
Copies dated 1901 also exist in smaller format, bound in red or brown cloth.
Copies seen: APR (1 red, 1 brown).

Unsigned, 1-128 (including endpapers). Obsolete signatures 1-12 on 3rd leaf of each gathering. Pp. [4] 1-3 4-182 183-88.
Contents: [1] paste-down; [2-4] blank; 1 half-title [double rule] / The Observations of Henry / [double rule]; 2 blank; 3 4-182 text, as in first Dodd, Mead edition, above; 183-87 blank; 188 paste-down.
The text is printed from the plates of the 1st American edition, but with narrower margins. Printed on wove paper, size 153 x 103mm.
Monochrome frontispiece (using illustration that faced p. 162 in first edition) and title-page, on plate paper, inserted between 1.3 and 1.4.
*Brown cloth, with illustration of Henry on front, and black lettering on front and spine; spine: [grey rule] The / OBSER- / VATIONS / of / HENRY / [grey rule] JEROME / [grey rule] / DODD, MEAD / & COMPANY.
Copies seen: FR.
Also issued in paper in the Phenix Series, no. 57, price 40¢.