James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
BRANCHIANA, being a partial Account of the Branch Family in Virginia
Hall Code |
Description |
Bra-A1 |
First Printing 1907 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: Branchiana | BEING A PARTIAL ACCOUNT OF | The Branch Family in Virginia | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] Hæc est | Vita solutorum misera ambitione gravique." | fleur-de-lis device | PRINTED BY | WHITTET & SHEPPERSON, | RICHMOND, VA. (see image above).
Title page verso: blank.
Publication:
[all enclosed in a single line box] Copyright, 1907, by JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] All rights reserved | Published October, 1907. (see image above).
(Brussel states that the publication date was October 10, 1907).
Limitation:
THIS EDITION OF BRANCHIANA IS LIMITED | TO ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SEVEN | COPIES, OF WHICH THIS IS NUMBER | {hand written in red] 134- | [ink signature] James Branch Cabell (see image above).
Collation:
Demy octavo [24.4 cm. (9⅝ in.) x 15.9 cm. (6¼ in.)] , iv + 180 with frontispiece and 9 grey scale portrait illustrations, all protected by plain tissue guards. P. (i) limitation page, verso blank; frontispiece; (iii) title page (verso blank); (1) dedication (verso blank); (3) Contents (verso blank); (4) Illustrations, verso publication page; (5) half-title; (7)-11 The Compiler's Foreward; (12) blank; (13) fly-title (verso blank); text (15)-177; (178) blank; (179) Errata; (180) blank. Pages (13), (23), (59), (103), (107), (111), (129), (145), (149), (157), and (173) are fly-titles. Illustrations face pp. 18, 36, 54, 70, 88, 114, 132, 152, and 168.
Binding:
Green cloth; gilt lettering and decorations on spine and front. Top gilt, otherwise untrimmed. Spine: BRANCHIANA | device | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL. Front: Branchiana | Branch family coat of arms (see image above).
Frontispiece:
Oval grey scale portrait of Thomas Branch; his signature as subscript; protected by plain tissue guard (see image above).
Dedication:
To | John Patteson Branch | This volume is with a double fitness dedicated, as being both | the first to suggest its compilation and the most | eminent living member of the family | which it commemorates. (see image above).
Dust jacket:
Not seen, but given that both other bindings were issued in dust jacket, it seems almost certain that this version had one too. We would assume that it was more-or-less the same as the one we show for Bra-A1b. Since most of the copies of the 147 copies of the first issue were bound in green cloth, though, it also seems at least conceivable that the jackets for the green cloth copies might have been printed on green paper instead of pink.
Notes:
Of the 147 copies in the original issue, 137 were bound in green cloth.
