James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THE CREAM OF THE JEST: A Comedy of Evasions
Hall Code |
Description |
CoJ-C3 (P) |
English Illustrated Edition 1927 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: THE CREAM OF | THE JEST | [in italic] A Comedy of Evasions | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HAROLD WARD | ILLUSTRATED BY FRANK C. PAPÉ | " Le pays où je voulais aller, tu m'y as mené en songe, | celte nuit, et tu étais belle . . . ah! que tu étais | belle! . . . Mais, comme je n'ai aimé que ton ombre, | tu me dispenseras, chère tête, de remercier ta réalité." | [decoration] | LONDON | JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LIMITED (see image above).
Title page verso: [in italic] First published in 1927 | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).
Publication:
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1927
Collation:
Small royal octavo [24.3 cm. (9 9/16 in.) x 16.5 cm. (6½ in.)]; xx + 244 pp.; (i) half-title; (ii) Books by Mr. Cabell; (not counted in pagination) recto blank, verso frontispiece; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); (vii)-xi A Note on Lichfield (verso blank); xiii-xvi Introduction, by Harold Ward; xvii-xviii Contents; (xix) Illustrations (verso blank); (1) fly-title BOOK FIRST (verso blank); 3-243 text (verso blank). Pages (1), (33), (89), (123), (169), and (215) are fly-titles. Pages (2), (34), (90), (124), (170), (216), and (244) are blank. Tipped-in illustrations face pages (iii), 26, 56, 88, 104, 134, 138, 172, 186, 200, 212, and 236.
Binding:
Black cloth, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, top edge trimmed and stained red, else untrimmed. Spine: THE | CREAM OF | THE JEST | JAMES BRANCH | CABELL | ILLUSTRATED BY | FRANK C. PAPÉ | [device of two facing dragons] | THE BODLEY | HEAD. Front cover: THE CREAM OF THE JEST | BY : JAMES BRANCH CABELL | ILLUSTRATED BY : FRANK C. PAPÉ | [decoration] (see image above).
Frontispiece:
"NIGHTLY HE WENT ADVENTURING WITH ETTARE" [drawing by Frank Papé] (see image above).
Dedication:
[in italic] To | LOUISA NELSON | [in italic] "At me ab amore tuo diducet | nulla senectus." (see image above).
Endpapers:
Left panel: Felix Kennaston at home, with his wife.
Right panel: Kennaston in his dreams, with Ettare.
Both panels drawn by Frank Papé, printed on grey paper (see image above).
Dust jacket:
Black paper, lettering and decorations on spine and front panel in red; rear panel and flaps are blank (see image above).
Spine: THE | CREAM OF | THE JEST | JAMES BRANCH | CABELL | ILLUSTRATED BY | FRANK C. PAPÉ | [device of two facing dragons] | [in italic] 21/- | NET | THE BODLEY | HEAD
Front panel: THE CREAM OF THE JEST | BY : JAMES BRANCH CABELL | ILLUSTRATED BY : FRANK C. PAPÉ | [decoration]
Notes:
Printed from imported sheets.
