The Silver Stallion: Cabellian Arts
Taboo in Lino-Cuts
Hall Code |
Description |
G6a |
Taboo in Lino-Cuts, Extra-illustrated 1927 |
COMPILATION
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 extra illustration laid in; (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] 46 | Signed [signature] William John Bernhard | Copyright 1927, by | William John Bernhard (see image above).
Dust jacket:
Brown paper. Front panel [in black] TABOO [within decorative border] | [device] In Lino-cuts [device] | by | William John Bernhard. Spine, rear panel, and both flaps blank (see image above).
Extra Illustration:
A signed print of the illustration titled "Horvendile," mounted on dark grey art paper, has been laid in. The print itself is on the same paper as that used in the book, but is printed on a smaller sheet (25.1 cm. [9⅞ in.] x 19.3 cm. [7 9/16 in.])
Hall's description for this issue reads
Same as [G6], except that there were a very few copies containing one extra hand-colored signed illustration.
This copy meets that description. The extra illustration, "Horvendile," is signed, where the same print in the body of the book is not. The book itself is identical to G6; the only difference is the extra print.
