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:

At left, the front and rear of the old-style Library of Congress index card for The Jewel Merchants in Lino-Cuts. 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. The Silver Stallion has observed two copies, Nos. 55 and 72, both of which had a signed, uncolored copy of "Graciosa" laid in (shown above) . Both signed prints are on a thin art paper distinctly different from the paper used in the book itself.

The Silver Stallion has also seen another copy, No. 20, that has three unsigned, uncolored prints laid in. These are "Guido", "Alessandro", and "The Victory of Guido" (all shown above). These prints are slightly larger than the single signed ones, and are on the same paper used in the book. Since this particular copy is a presentation copy to "Vera" and dated 1933, these may be proofs instead of the signed prints expected in the copies for sale.