Full Title:

Title recto: [all hand cut lino-cut block print] ] The JEWEL | MERCHANTS [colored within decorative border] | [device] In Lino-cuts [device] | by | William John Bernhard | [block "B" device] | Privately Printed | MCMXXVIII (see image above).

Title verso: blank.

Publication:

New York; privately printed; 1928.

Collation:

Royal quarto [32.4 cm. (12¾ in.) x 25.1 cm. (9⅞ in.)]; pp. (28); (1-4) blank leaf; (5) half-title (verso blank); (7) blank; (8) frontispiece; title page (verso blank); (9) limitation page (verso blank); (11) Contents (verso blank); (13-26) 7 hand-colored illustrations (verso of each leaf blank); (27) blank leaf. Each printed page is protected by an unprinted tissue guard.

Binding:

Quarter bound, white art vellum spine with batik paper boards, hand-blocked white paper label on front cover. Spine: blank. Front cover: [all hand cut lino-cut block print] ] The JEWEL | MERCHANTS [colored within decorative border] | [device] In Lino-cuts [device] | by | William John Bernhard (see image above).

Frontispiece:

[All hand cut lino-cut block print] Hand tinted portrait of Mr. Cabell, signed "William John Bernhard" in pencil (see image above).

Limitation:

[All hand cut lino-cut block print] Printed by hand from the original blocks | and hand colored. This one and | only edition is strictly limited to | 75 copies signed and numbered | of which this copy is no. [hand written] 20 | Signed [signature} William John Bernhard | Copyright 1928, by | William John Bernhard (see image above).

Notes:

Three additional unsigned, uncolored prints from the book have been laid into this copy. These are "Guido" (shown above), "Alessandro", and "The Victory of Guido". At least one report has stated that the book was issued with three additional prints laid in as standard. Another copy of this issue has been observed with only one additional print, however, and the work's entry in the Catalog of Copyright Entries: 1928 for the Library of Congress notes One signed plate in black and white laid in.