Liza of Lambeth (1897)

Liza of Lambeth (1897)

Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965

Bishop, Henry (cover illustrator)

T. Fisher Unwin

1897-09

Note that this copy doesn't have square bracket enclosing "All rights reserved" and thus isn't the first issue that Stott talks about. He does mention that there are copies, like this one, with this variant, but can't be certain when they come into place. He conjectures that sheets of second impression got mixed up somehow with the first during the printing process. Another difference I can see has to do with the advertisements at the end of the book. It is listed as "A Preliminary List of Mr. T. Fisher Unwins Announcements for 1897."

Summary:
"This is the story of a nine days wonder in a Lambeth slum. It shows that those queer folk the poor live and love and love and die in very much the same way as their neighbours of Brixton and Belgravia, and that hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness are not the peculiar attributes of the Glorious British Middle Class, and finally it shows that in this world nothing very much matters, and that in Vere Street, Lambeth, nothing matters at all" (Maugham's own description when he sent the manuscript A Lambeth Idyll to Fisher Unwin. Source: Stott, p. 17).

Collation:
p. [iii] half-title, p. [iv] publisher's monogram, p. [v] title, p. [vi] "All rights reserved", p. [vii] dedication "To MY GOOD FRIEND ADNEY PAYNE", 242 pages, p. [243] "A Preliminary List OF MR. T. FISHER UNWINS Announcements for 1897", 6 pages of advertisements

19 x 12 cm, hardcover

Working class -- England -- London -- Fiction.

Lambeth (London, England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Stott A1a

MMC_N_LL1897TFU

Text

Public domain

en

First edition, issue unknown

London

Print book

Novel

#544F16 (West Coast), a frame with a girl with hat in gold

No

2013

3s. 6d. in 1897, 2,000 copies