Full Title:

Title page recto: GALLANTRY | [in italic] Dizain des Fêtes Galantes | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY | LOUIS UNTERMEYER | "HALF IN MASQUERADE, PLAYING THE DRAWING-ROOM | OR GARDEN COMEDY OF LIFE, THESE PERSONS HAVE UPON | THEM, NOT LESS THAN THE LANDSCAPE AMONG THE ACCI- | DENTS OF WHICH THEY GROUP THEMSELVES WITH FITTING- | NESS, A CERTAIN LIGHT THAT WE SHOULD SEEK FOR IN | VAIN UPON ANYTHING REAL." | LONDON | JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LIMITED (see image above).

Title page verso: [in italic] First Published in 1928 | PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN FROM ELECTROPLATES | BY JARROLD AND SONS LTD., NORWICH (see image above).

Publication:

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1928

Collation:

Crown octavo [19.1 cm. (7½ in.) x 13.7 cm. (5⅜ in.)]; 1 blank leaf + xxii + 344 pp.; blank leaf (not counted in pagination); (i) half-title; (ii) BY THE SAME AUTHOR; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) Dedication (verso blank); v11-xii Introduction by Louis Untermeyer; (xiii) Contents (verso blank); xv-xix Epistle Dedicatory; (xx) blank; (xxi-xxii) Prologue; 1-342 text; (343-344) advertisements; (1), (37), (61), (89), (109), (137), (169), (245), (273), (301), and (331) are fly-titles; (2), (38), (62), (90), (110), (138), (170), (246), (274), (302), and (332) carry Dramatis Personæ for the stories they precede; (36), (60), (88), (168); (244), and (330) are blank.

Binding:

Green cloth, black lettering and decorations; top edge trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: [in italic] GALLANTRY | [double rule] | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL. Front cover: [in italic] GALLANTRY | [double rule] | JAMES BRANCH | CABELL (see image above).

Dedication:

[rule] | TO | JAMES ROBINSON BRANCH | THIS VOLUME, SINCE IT TREATS OF GALLANTRY, IS | DEDICATED, AS BOTH IN LIFE AND DEATH | AN EXPONENT OF THE WORD'S | HIGHEST MEANING | [in italic] "A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool | understand this . . . Shall the throne of iniquity | have a fellowship with Thee, which frameth mischief | by a law?" | [rule] (see image above).