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Household Edition, 12mo., 406p. (120x195mm).

James R. Osgood & Co.
1875-1876 PTLA: [New Household edition]. Illustrated, 12mo. [cloth] $2.00; antique morocco $5.00; half calf $4.00.

----. 120x195mm, 406p. Titlepage: Household Edition. Spine: Illustrated (but only a frontispiece portrait is present). Text in double columns, red line borders. Cloth with gold panel stamp, roughly rectangular, which reads: Owen / Meredith's / Illustrated [in curved line] Poems. Blind medallion centered on rear board. Beveled edges. Glazed brown endpapers. Verso of 1875 second flyleaf carries a printed list of "Editions of the Works of Owen Meredith (Robert, Lord Lytton)" including five editions of Lucile ranging in price from $1.00 (32mo. Diamond Edition) to $6.00 (Holiday Edition, illustrated, 8vo., Full gilt). Household Edition of the Poems ("Containing Poems by Owen Meredith, Lucile, The Apple of Life, &c., 1 vol., 12mo.") priced at $2.00. 1876 American Catalog-- ill 12o. $2; hf.cf., $4; mor., $5. BAP O1: terra cotta cloth, flyleaf inscribed December 25, 1875; S&EH (green cloth, leather).

1877 PTLA: Illustrated, 12mo. [cloth] $2.00; antique morocco $5.00; half calf $4.00. Leatherette $3.00; also offered with Longfellow, Lowell, Tennyson and Whittier, 5 vols boxed, $15.00.

----. S&EH: green cloth.

Houghton, Osgood & Co.
1878-1879 PTLA: [New Household Edition]. Illustrated, 12mo. [cloth] $2.00; leatherette $3.00; half calf $4.00; morocco $5.00; tree calf $5.00.

1880. S&EH: terra cotta cloth; without red line borders and edge gilding.

Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
1880 PTLA: Illustrated. 12mo. [cloth] $2.00; leatherette $3.00; half calf $4.00; morocco $5.00; tree calf $5.00. Household Edition.

----. As Osgood 1875: 123x194mm, 406p. Titlepage: Household Edition. Verso titlepage: University Press: John Wilson & Son, Cambridge. Illustrations. Cloth stamped gold; beveled edges. Houghton, Mifflin device replaces Osgood's at foot of spine. Glazed brown endsheets. BAP HM1: green cloth; S&EH: green cloth.

1881 PTLA: Portrait and Illustrations. 12mo. [cloth] $2.00; half calf $4.00; morocco or tree calf $4.50.

----. S&EH: tree calf.

1882 PTLA: Portrait and Illustrations. 12mo. [cloth] $2.00; half calf $4.00; morocco or tree calf $5.00.

----. Household Edition. Cloth stamped red and gold; beveled edges. Glazed brown endsheets. For same binding design, executed black and gold, see Chicago: Belford & Clarke (Chicago BC3.5). Verso of sheet preceding frontispiece leaf in 1882 copy has advertisement for other Meredith works. This Household Edition of the Poems is offered at $2.00 cloth, $4.00 half calf; $5.00 morocco or tree calf. BAP HM2: green cloth; Microfilmed. Columbia.

1883-1885 PTLA: Portrait and Illustrations. 12mo. [cloth] $2.00; half calf $4.00; morocco or tree calf $5.00.
1886-1887 PTLA: with portrait and illustrations. 12mo. [cloth] $1.75; full gilt $2.25; half calf $3.00; morocco or tree calf $4.50.
1888-1889 PTLA: with portrait and illustrations. 12mo. [cloth] $1.75; full gilt $2.00; half calf $3.00; morocco or tree calf $4.50.
1890-1895 PTLA: with portrait and illustrations. 12mo. [cloth] $1.50; full gilt $2.00; half calf $3.00; levant or tree calf $4.50.
1896 PTLA: with portrait and illustrations. 12mo. [cloth] $1.50; full gilt $2.00; half calf $3.00; half calf gilt top $3.25 levant or tree calf $4.50.
1897-1899 PTLA: with portrait and illustrations. Crown 8vo. [cloth] $1.50; full gilt $2.00; half calf $3.00; half calf gilt top $3.25; levant or tree calf $4.50.

----. nd. Publisher's titlepage device includes pipe player under a tree. Blue pebble cloth. BAP HM3: flyleaf inscribed Christmas 1898; Oregon State Corvallis: rebound.
----. nd. Publisher's device includes boy sitting by stream. Brown pebble cloth. BAP HM3.5: flyleaf inscribed Christmas 1899.

[1893] 408p. Board: HOUSE- / HOLD / EDITION (left of wreath) OF / THE / POETS (right of wreath); titlepage: Household Edition. Cloth stamped black and gold. Glazed grey/green endsheets.

----. nd. brown cloth. BAP: inscribed "Girls of '93"; publisher's device including a boy sitting by a stream..

----. nd. 130x204mm, 408p. Inscribed 1893. Text in double columns. Green cloth stamped black and gold. Edges beveled. Aeg. Glazed blue endsheets. S&EH

[1900-1930?]: Binding illustrated to the right seems to date after about 1900 and may have been issued until 1930. No copies are dated.

1900-1901 PTLA: with portrait and illustrations. Crown 8vo. [cloth] $1.50; full gilt $2.00; half calf $3.00; half calf gilt top $3.25; levant or tree calf $5.00.
1902-1904 PTLA: as 1900. 1902. Household edition: United States Catalog. $1.50 - $5. 1902 United States Catalog. $1.50; hf.cf. $3; $3.50; hf.mor., $4.25; lev. or tree cf. $5.50.
1905-1909 PTLA: with portrait and illustrations. Crown 8vo. [cloth] $1.50; half calf $3.00; half calf, gilt top $3.25; half morocco $4.25; levant or tree calf $5.50

1910-1913 PTLA: with portrait and illustrations. Crown 8vo. [cloth] $1.50; half calf $3.00; half calf, gilt top $3.50; half morocco $4.25; levant or tree calf $5.50.

----. 130x204mm, 408p. Titlepage: Household Edition / with illustrations. Publisher's device includes boy playing pipe. Text in two columns. Gold wreaths in each corner, gold lines. Design repeated blind on lower board.
----. nd. Brown cloth. S&EH: Inscribed "St. Pals Day 1913".
----. nd. Green cloth. BAP HM5: inscribed December 22, 1913.
----, nd. Green cloth. Lacks blind stamping on lower board. S&EH.

1914-1916 PTLA: with portrait and illustrations. Crown 8vo. [cloth] $1.50; half calf $3.00; half calf, gilt top $3.25; half morocco $4.00; tree calf $5.25; levant $5.50.
1917-1918 PTLA: with portrait and illustrations. Crown 8vo. [cloth] $1.50; half calf $5.25; half calf, gilt top $5.50; half morocco $5.50; tree calf $8.00; levant $7.50.
1919 PTLA: with portrait and illustrations. Crown 8vo. [cloth] $2.00; half calf $7.25; half calf, gilt top $8.00; tree calf $14.00; levant $12.00.
1920-1923 PTLA: with portrait and illustrations. Crown 8vo. [cloth] $2.25; half calf $9.25; half calf, gilt top $9.50; tree calf $16.00; levant $14.00.
1924-1927 PTLA: with portrait and illustrations. Crown 8vo. [cloth] $2.25; half calf $7.25; half calf, gilt top $7.50; tree calf $16.00; levant $12.00.
1928-1930 PTLA: with portrait and illustrations. Crown 8vo. [cloth] $2.50; half calf $7.25; half calf, gilt top $7.50; tree calf $16.00; levant $12.00.
1931 PTLA and after: no Poems offered.

Illustrated Library Edition, 34 illus, both red line and non-red line issues.

James R. Osgood & Co.
1876 PW p816: A large variety of excellent gift material can be found in Osgood's Catalogue as the new Illustrated Library Edition of Tennyson ... Owen Meredith, and "Songs of Three Countries," each in an octavo of some 400 pages or more, with 34 full-page illustrations ($5 each), The Red-Line editions of these same and other poets ($3.50 each) ...."

1877 PW p604: Illustrated Library Poets. Longfellow, Lowell, Owen Meredith ... Each with 32 or more illustrations. With Red-line borders. Price of each in cloth, $5.00; Half Calf, $8.00; Tree Calf or Morocco, $10.00. In "Illustrated Gift Books" list, described as "portrait and 32 Full-page ill, 8vo.

----. 140x211mm, 406 double-column pages, red line borders. Fronntispiece portrait and numerous illustrations. Beveled edges, aeg. Brown glazed endsheets. S&EH.

Houghton, Osgood & Co.
1878 PTLA: Portrait and 32 illustrations, 8vo. Cloth, full gilt $5.00; half calf $8.00; morocco $10.00; tree calf $10.00.
1879 PTLA: Portrait and 32 illustrations, 8vo. Cloth, full gilt $4.00; half calf $7.00; morocco $9.00; tree calf $9.00.

Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
[Illustrated] Library Edition.
1880-1885 PTLA: Portrait and 32 illustrations. 8vo. cloth, full gilt $4.00; half calf $7.00; morocco $9.00; tree calf $9.00.

1881: Red Line Edition. 140x210mm, 406p.

1886-1887 PTLA: Portrait and 32 illustrations. 8vo. full gilt $3.50; half calf $5.50; morocco or tree calf $7.50.
1888-1889 PTLA: Portrait and 36 illustrations. 8vo. full gilt $3.50; half calf $5.00; morocco or tree calf $7.50.
1890-1895 PTLA: Portrait and 36 illustrations. 8vo. full gilt $3.00; half calf $5.00; levant, padded calf or tree calf $7.50.
1896-1901 PTLA: Portrait and 36 illustrations. 8vo. full gilt $2.50; half calf $5.00; levant, padded calf or tree calf $7.50.
1902 PTLA: as 1896. 1902 United States Catalog. $2.50; $5; lev. $7.50;
1903-1904 PTLA: Portrait and 35 illustrations. 8vo. gilt top $2.50; half calf $5.00; levant, padded calf or tree calf $7.50.
1905-1914 PTLA: Portrait and 35 illustrations. 8vo. gilt top $3.00; half calf $5.50; levant or tree calf $8.00.
1912 United States Catalog. $3, hf.cf. $5.50, lev. or tree cf. $8.
1915 PTLA: Library Edition not listed.

Shawmut Edition.

Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Announced as forthcoming in Publishers' Weekly August 7, 1880; announced as "just published" October 23, 1880, "uniform with Shawmut Tennyson." Full gilt, $1.50; plain edges, $1.

1881-1882 PTLA: full gilt $1.50; plain edges $1.00.

New Revised Edition, 406p. (135x200mm). [on titlepage; not listed with this description in PTLA; = Shawmut?]

Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 133x197mm, 406p. Titlepage: New Revised Edition, with frontispiece portrait and numerous illustrations (scattered through double-column text). Cloth stamped black and gold (panel stamp of MEREDITH with triangles in gold pointing up and down from its center), edges beveled, aeg. Cream endpapers.

1881. ----. 143x223mm, 408p. A red line edition. Dark green cloth stamped with border of gold thistles, aeg. Frontispiece portrait. Plain endsheets. BAP HM1.5; S&EH: cloth; tree calf..

----. Light purple cloth, stamped black and gold, aeg, glazed yellow endsheets. Cornell.

----. Microfilmed: Columbia.

----. "New Revised Edition" on titlepage. Red linen-finish buckram. BAP HM4: inscribed on second front fly: "Sister Grace from Mabel & Jim June 1907".

1882: ----. E&SH: blue cloth

Undetermined Editions:

----. 1882: BAP

1888: BAP

Related Meredith titles:

Cabinet Edition, 16mo, 2 vols. (105x120mm). 1866-1871 American Catalog. 2 vols. 16mo. cl., $4, 1868.

Ticknor & Fields. Poems in two volumes (volume 1: The Wanderer and Tannhauser; volume 2: Clytemnestra and National Songs of Servia). Uniform with cabinet edition, gold cartouche on top board, date 1865. BAP; S&EH.

James R. Osgood & Co. 105x170mm. Cabinet Edition, 2 vols., priced $4.00, in 1874 Fables in Song. 1876 American Catalogue: Poems. (Cabinet ed.) 2 v. 16o. $3; hf.cf. $6; mor., $8.

1872. ----. Green cloth stamped.. Teg. S&EH.

1873-1875 PTLA: 2 vols, 16mo. [cloth] $4.00; antique morocco $7.00; half calf $5.00.
1876 PTLA: 2 vols, 16mo. [cloth] $4.00; antique morocco $8.00; half calf $6.00.
1877 PTLA: 2 vols, 16mo. [cloth] $3.00; antique morocco $5.00; half calf $4.00.

Houghton, Osgood & Co.

1878-1879 PTLA: 2 vols, 16mo. [cloth] $3.00; half calf $6.00; morocco $8.00.

Houghton Mifflin & Co.

1880-1882 PTLA: 2 vols. 16mo. [cloth] $3.00, half calf $6.00; morocco $8.00.
1883 PTLA: 2 vols. 16mo. [cloth] $3.00

Blue & Gold, 32mo, 2 vols. (85x145mm). 2 vols., priced $3.00; 1876 American Catalogue: Poems. (Blue and gold ed.) 2 v. 32o $2.50; hf.cf., $5; mor., $6.

James R. Osgood
1873-1875 PTLA: 2 vols, 32mo. [cloth] $3.00; antique morocco $9.00; half calf $6.50.
1876-1877 PTLA: 2 vols, 32mo. [cloth] $3.00; antique morocco $6.00; half calf $5.00.

Houghton Osgood & Co.
1878-1879 PTLA: 2 vols, 32mo. [cloth] $2.50; half calf $5.00; morocco $6.00.

1880. E&SH.

Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
1880-1881 PTLA: 2 vols. 32mo. [Cloth] $2.50; half calf $5.00; morocco $6.00.

Fields, Osgood & Co. New Poems by Owen Meredith. 2 vols. 105x170mm, vol 1: "Chronicles and Characters," 507p, vol 2: "Chronicles and Characters / Orval and Other Poems," 518p. Verso titlepage: Author's Edition. Blind rules around edges, cartouche of embellished ovals-at-right-angles (from the CABINET editions) reads "New Poems 1868." Top edge gilt. Brown glazed endsheets.

----, 1869. Green cloth. S&EH.

James R. Osgood & Co. 1877 PTLA: New Poems ("Chronicles and Characters"), Blue & Gold Edition, 2 vols., priced at $3.00, Cabinet Edition, 2 vols., $4.00, in 1874 Fables in Song. (Does not contain Lucile).  

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