Full Title:

Title page recto:[all in green] THE | EAGLE'S SHADOW | By | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] Illustrated by Will Grefé | Decorated by Blanche Ostertag | Heinemann windmill device | London | Wm. Heinemann| 1904 (see image above).

Title page verso: [all in green] [device of flowers] [in italic] This Edition enjoys Copyright in all| Countries signatory to the Berne |Treaty, and is not to be imported| into the United States of America| [line] | PRINTED BY BERWICK & SMITH CO. | NORWOOD, MASS., U. S. A. (see image above).

Publication:

London: Wm. Heinemann, Autumn, 1904.

Collation:

Crown octavo [19.7 cm. (7 ¾ in.) x 12.3 cm. (5 in.)], 2 blank leaves, xii + 258 with tipped-in frontispiece and 7 tipped-in illustrations. Preliminaries printed in green: (i) half-title, verso blank; frontispiece; (iii) title page; (iv) publication page; (v) dedication, verso blank; (vii-viii) Contents; (ix, although stated as xi) List of Illustrations, verso blank; (xi-xii) The Characters; (1) sub-title, verso blank; 3-256 text; last leaf blank. Illustrations face pp. 8, 38, 60, 98, 154, 174, and 220.

Oddly, the order of the List of Illustrations and The Characters pages in the preliminaries have been reversed compared to the American issues, which explains the mis-numbering of the List of Illustrations page.

Binding:

Green cloth: gilt lettering; blue and black stamped decoration on front and spine, all edges trimmed. Spine [blue and black decorated band] | [all enclosed in a single line black box] THE | EAGLE'S | SHADOW | [blue and black decorated band] | [all enclosed in a single line black box] JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [blue and black decorated band] | [single line black box]| [blue and black decorated band] | [single line black box] | [within single line black band, blue background] HEINEMANN. Front cover: [single line black box, enclosing a double line black box with decorated corners, enclosing a triple line black box with blue and black decorated corners | [all enclosed in a shield shaped blue and black decoration, open ground] THE | EAGLE'S | SHADOW (see image above).

Frontispiece:

Drawing of a woman seated; subscribed "Margaret' [second quote defective] (see image above).

The drawing by Will Grefé used as the frontispiece originally appeared in the August 6, 1904, issue of The Saturday Evening Post, as an illustration for the first installment of the serial version of The Eagle's Shadow. The original caption was "BUT I DON'T WANT TO MARRY ANYBODY."

Dedication:

[all in green] [device of flowered branch piercing a heart] To | M. L. P. B. | [in italic] In trust that the enterprise may be judged | less by the merits of its factor than | by the of its patron (see image above).

"M. L. P. B." was Martha Louise Patteson Branch (1835 - 1908), Cabell's grandmother.

Endpapers:

[all in green] landscape drawing by Blanche Ostertag (see image above).

Notes:

Issued in London from imported sheets of the first state.