Full Title:

Title page recto: [in red] FIGURES OF EARTH | A COMEDY OF APPEARANCES | By JAMES BRANCH CABELL | WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND | DECORATIONS BY FRANK C. PAPÉ | [device] | "Cascun se mir el jove Manuel, | Qu'era del mon lo plus dels pros " | JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LIMITED | LONDON [row of four devices] (see image above).

Title page verso: [in italic] First published . . . . 1921 | Reprinted . . . . . . 1924 | Illustrated Edition . . . 1925 | Printed in Great Britain. R. Clay & Sons, Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk. (see image above).

Publication:

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., October 16, 1925

Collation:

Medium octavo [24.4 cm. (9⅝ in.) x 16.2 cm. (6⅜ in.)]; 1 blank leaf + xviii + 260 pp.; (not counted in pagination) blank leaf; (i) half-title; (ii) By the Same Author (book list); (leaf not counted in pagination) recto blank, frontispiece verso; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); vii-viii Contents; ix List of Illustrations (verso blank); (xi) fly-title, A Foreword (verso blank); xiii-xvii text of Foreword (verso blank); (1) fly-title PART I; (2) quotation; 3-257 text (verso blank); (259) advertisement. Pages (xi), (1), (61), (101), (151), and (207) are fly-titles. Pages (vi), (x), (xii), (xviii), (100), (150), (206), and (258) are blank. Illustrations face pp. (iii), 14, 30, 50, 72, 84, 110, 126, 138, 166, 192, and 220.

Binding:

Black cloth, gilt lettering and decorations on spine and front cover; top edge trimmed and stained red, else untrimmed. Spine: FIGURES| OF EARTH | JAMES BRANCH | CABELL | ILLUSTRATED BY | FRANK C. PAPÉ | [device of two facing dragons] | THE BODLEY | HEAD. Front cover: [all enclosed in two concentric triple ruled boxes in blind] [illustration of Manuel and Grandfather Death on horseback, enclosed in a single ruled box] | FIGURES OF EARTH | BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | ILLUSTRATED BY FRANK C. PAPÉ (see image above).

Frontispiece:

Manuel and Alianora the Unattainable Princess at the pool of Haranton, by Frank Papé (see image above).

Dedication:

TO SIX MOST GALLANT CHAMPIONS IS DEDI- | CATED THIS HISTORY OF A CHAMPION: LESS | TO REPAY THAN TO ACKNOWLEDGE LARGE | DEBTS TO EACH OF THEM, COLLECTIVELY | AT OUTSET, AS THEREAFTER SERIATIM (see image above).

There are additional dedications for each of the six books on the Fly-titles.

Endpapers:

Full spread illustration of Manuel, his first Figure of Earth, and Miramon Lluagor at the pool of Haranton, by Frank Papé (see image above).

Notes:

The copy examined has a review slip from John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd. laid in, giving the publication date as 16 Oc. '25, at a price of 21 shillings (see image above).