James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
JURGEN: A Comedy of Justice
Hall Code |
Description |
Jur-D11 (E) |
Eleventh English Unillustrated Printing 1935 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [all enclosed in a triple ruled box, center rule diced] JURGEN | A Comedy of Justice | [in italic] by | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] with an introduction by | HUGH WALPOLE | JOHN LANE | THE BODLEY HEAD LTD. (see image above).
Title page verso: [in italic] First published in limited edition . . . . . . November 1921 | First unlimited edition . . . . . . . . January 1923 | Reprinted . . . . . . . . . . . March 1923 | Reprinted . . . . . . . . . . . August 1923 | Reprinted . . . . . . . . . . . January 1924 | Reprinted . . . . . . . . . . . May 1925 | Reprinted . . . . . . . . . . . February 1926 | Reprinted . . . . . . . . . . . October 1926 | Reprinted . . . . . . . . . . . May 1928 | Reprinted . . . . . . . . . . . December 1929 | First published in the Week End Library . . . . . . . 1932 | Reprinted . . . . . . . . . . . 1935 | Made and Printed in Great Britain by | Butler & Tanner Ltd., Frome and London (see image above).
Publication:
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1935
Collation:
Sextodecimo (foolscap octavo) [17.5 cm. (6⅞ in.) x 14.3 cm. (5⅝ in.)]; xvi + 334 + 1 blank leaf not counted in pagination; (i)half-title; (ii) list of titles in The Week-End Library; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication; (vi) quotations; vii-viii Introduction by Hugh Walpole; ix-x Contents; (xi) A FOREWORD (verso blank); xiii-xv text of foreword (verso blank); (1) fly-title (verso blank); 3-325 text (verso blank); (327-328) Critical opinion of James Branch Cabell; pp. (329-334) Publisher's advertisements; 1 blank leaf.
Binding:
Green cloth; gilt lettering and decorations on spine and front cover; all edges trimmed.. Spine: [all in gilt italic] JURGEN | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | THE | BODLEY | HEAD. Front cover: [Facsimile of Mr. Cabell's signature in lower right corner, in gilt] (see image above).
Dedication:
TO | BURTON RASCOE | [dedication in acrostic verse of three quatrains] (see image above).
Dust jacket:
Green paper, text in black and brown, decorations in brown (see image above).
Spine: [Weekend Library logo in brown] JURGEN | [device in brown] | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | THE BODLEY | HEAD
Front panel: [Weekend Library logo in brown with black text ] [in black] Jurgen | [in brown] JAMES BRANCH CABELL
Rear panel: [Text in black, decoations in brown] The Week-End Library | [device] | [in italic} A SELECTED LIST | [list of 17 titles in the Week-Enf Library] | [device]
Front flap: [three blurbs for Jurgen, from Hugh Walpole, Observer, andSunday Dispatyh]
Rear flap: [Text in black, decoations in brown] A full list of the titles in the | Week-End Library will be found | at the end of this volume. | [device] | With the following additions : | [list of 4 titles] | [device]
