Full Title:

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

Title verso: blank.

Publication:

New York; privately printed; 1927.

Collation:

Royal quarto [32.4 cm. (12¾ in.) x 24.1 cm. (9½ in.)]; pp. (26); (1) blank leaf; (3) half-title (verso blank); (5) blank; (6) frontispiece; title page (verso blank); (7) limitation page (verso blank); (9) Contents (verso blank); (11-24) 7 hand-colored illustrations (verso of each leaf blank); (25) 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] ] TABOO [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 colored. This one and | only edition is strictly limited to | fifty copies signed and numbered | of which this copy is no. [hand written] 33 | Signed [signature] William John Bernhard | Copyright 1927, by | William John Bernhard (see image above).

Notes:

The publication notice at left, laid into the copy shown above, originally appeared in Herschell Brickell's column "Books on our Table", in the New York Evening Post, Friday, July 15, 1927.