Liza of Lambeth 1897 T. Fisher Unwin

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Record no.	MMC_N_LL1897TFU
Title	Liza of Lambeth
Title - Alternative	A Lambeth Idyll (Maugham's original title)
Creator	W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
Contributor	Henry Bishop (cover illustration)
Format	Print Book
Genre / Form	Novel
Publisher	London : T. Fisher Unwin
Date	September 1897
Language	English
Physical Description	242 pages, 6 pages of advertisements at the end | 19 cm | hardcover
Identifier – Edition	First edition, issue unknown
Identifier - Cover Colour (Approximate)	#544F16 (West Coast)
Identifier - Dust Jacket	None
Identifier - Other Catalogues	Stott A1a
Description - Abstract	"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)
Notes	Dedicated to Adney Payne 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."
Subject	Working class -- England -- London -- Fiction. Lambeth (London, England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Cost	US$176 in 2013 3s. 6d. in 1897 | 2,000 copies
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