James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
FROM THE HIDDEN WAY: Dizain des Échoes
[bound with]
THE JEWEL MERCHANTS: A Comedy of Echoes
Hall Code |
Description |
FHW-C2 (RS) |
Red Binding, Storisende Text |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: From the Hidden Way: | The Jewel Merchnts | Dizain and Comedy of Echoes | [double rule] | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [Kalki device] | [double rule] | NEW YORK : MCMXXXII | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1916, 1921, 1929 | BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1932
Collation:
Medium octavo [22.9 cm. (9 in.) x 15.2 cm. (6 in.)]; (i) title page; (ii) publication data; (iii)-(xi) [vii]-[(xv)] Author's Note (signed by the author, verso blank); (xiii)-(xvi) [xvii]-[xx] Contents of From the Hidden Way; (xvii) [xxi] Contents of The Jewel Merchants (verso blank); (1) half-title, From the Hidden Way (verso blank); (3) dedication, From the Hidden Way (verso blank); (5) fly-title, Apologia Auctoris; (6) quotation; 7-14 text of Apologia Auctoris; 15-16 At Outset (verse); (17) fly-title, BOOK ONE; (18) quotation; 19-209 text of poems (verso blank); (211) fly-title, The Jewel Merchants; (212) quotation; (213) notice of reservation of acting rights (verso blank); (214) dedication, The Jewel Merchants (verso blank); 217-222 The Author's Prologue; (223) historical note (verso blank); (225) half-title, The Jewel Merchants (verso blank); (227) list of the original cast (verso blank); 229-270 text of play; (271) fly-title, An Appendix About Poor Jack (verso blank); (273) reproduction of the title page of Poor Jack (verso blank); 275-282 text of appendix. Pages (5), (17), (41), (61), (81), (97), (113), (127), (149), (169), and (185) are fly-titles. Pages (xii), (xviii), (2), (4), (168), (210), (214), (216), (224), (226), (228), (272), and (274) are blank.
Note: Beginning with page (iii), which is numbered as p. [vii], the preliminary pages are paginated incorrectly. This is because they were originally numbered for the Storisende Edition. In this collation, the correct pagination for the prelims is given in (parentheses), while the numeration as printed is given in [brackets].
Binding:
Red cloth, gilt lettering and decorations on spine and front cover; all edges trimmed, tops gilded. Spine: FROM THE | HIDDEN WAY | [rule] | THE JEWEL | MERCHANTS | [rule] | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | McBRIDE. Front cover: [Kalki device, centered within decorative border originally drawn by Frank Papé for the American illustrated edition of Domnei, Dom-D1 (P) (see image above).
Dedications:
From the Hidden Way: [in italic] To | BEVERLY BLAND MUNFORD | (31 May 1910) | [sonnet in two unequal stanzas] (see image above).
The Jewel Merchants: [in italic] For | LOUISE BURLEIGH | THIS LATEST AVATAR OF SO MANY NOTIONS | WHICH WERE ORIGINALLY HERS (see image above).
Dust jacket:
Gold paper, with black lettering and decorations. Both the front and rear panels are enclosed in the same Papé border used for the front cover, with Papé illustrations within the borders on both front and rear. The drawing used for this jacket was originally used in the first illustrated edition of Figures of Earth, Hall FoE-C1 (P), facing p. 14 (see image above).
Spine:[triple rule] | FROM | THE | HIDDEN | WAY | [rule] | THE | JEWEL | MERCHANTS | [triple rule] | [rule] JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [rule] | [rule] | McBRIDE | [rule]
Front panel: [illustration enclosed in decorative border, both drawn by Frank Papé. See note above.]
Rear panel: [same as front panel]
Front flap: [flush right] Net $5.00 | [rule] THE WORKS OF | [in italic] James Branch Cabell | [list of 18 Cabell titles published by McBride] | [rule] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | [in italic] Publishers New York
Rear flap: [rule] | [advertisement for Travel Magazine | [rule] | [rule] | [coupon for Book News] | [rule]
Notes:
For a more detailed discussion of the "Red Storisendes", see our page on The "Red Storisende" Bindings.
