James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
JURGEN: A Comedy of Justice
Hall Code |
Description |
*Jur-M1 |
Limited Editions Club Edition 1976 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: James Branch Cabell | Jurgen | [in italic] A Comedy of Justice | WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY | Edward Wagenknecht | ILLUSTRATIONS BY | Virgil Burnett | [illustration] | PRINTED FOR MEMBERS OF | The Limited Editions Club | WESTPORT · CONNECTICUT (see image above).
Title page verso: [in italic]"Of JURGEN eke they maken mencioun | That of an old wyf gat his youthe agoon, | And gat himselfe a shirte as bright as fyre | Wherein to jape, yet gat not his desire | In any countrie ne condicioun." | Copyright 1919, 1928 by James Branch Cabell. | This edition has been made by arrangement | with the holder of copyright, Margaret Freeman Cabell. | The introduction and illustrations | are copyright © 1976 by The Limited Editions Club, | Westport, Connecticut. (see image above).
Publication:
Westport, Connecticut: The Limited Editions Club, 1976
Collation:
Super octavo [28.3 cm. (11⅛ in.) x 18.4 cm. (7¼ in.)]; 1 blank leaf + xxviii + 294. (not counted in pagination) 1 blank leaf; (i) half-title (verso blank); (not counted in pagination) recto blank, verso frontispiece; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; v-(xxii) Introduction, by Edward Wagenknecht; (xiii) quotations (verso blank); xv-xvi Contents; (xvii) Color Plates; (xviii) dedication; (1) fly-title (verso blank); 3-(5) A Foreword (verso blank); 7-290 text, followed by 1 blank leaf; (293) limitation (verso blank). Tipped-in illustrations face pages (iii), 44, 84, 116, 156, 188, 216, and 260.
Binding:
Purple buckram, lettering and decorations in gilt; top edge gilded, all edges trimmed. Spine: Jurgen | [device] | Cabell. Front cover: [illustration] (see image above).
Frontispiece:
Pochoir tinted drawing by Virgil Burnett (see image above).
Dedication:
Left side of page: [device] | [in italic] To | Burton | Rascoe
Right side of page: [12-line acrostic verse in three quatrains] (see image above).
Limitation:
[illustration] This is copy number | [hand-written] 190 | of two thousand copies of a limited edition of | Jurgen | [in italic] A Comedy of Justice | illustrated with drawings by Virgil Burnett | hand colored by pochoir at the | Atelier Walter Fischer in New York City. | The edition has been designed by Ted Gensamer, | printed at The Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont, | and signed by the illustrator: | [signature] (see image above).
Endpapers:
Unmarked purple endpapers.
Dust jacket / Slipcase:
Issued in an unmarked tissue dust jacket and cardboard slipcase covered in purple paper, lettered on the spine in gilt: Jurgen | [device] | Cabell (see image above).
Limited Editions Club Monthly Letter:
LEC Monthly Letter No. 501, October 1976, was devoted to this issue of Jurgen. It discusses the making of the book itself, the designer and typeface, the illustrator, and the writer of the introduction. In itself, it is worth reading, so we have decided to reproduce it in full here. It is presented as a PDF file, so as usual you'll need to use your browser's BACK button to return to The Silver Stallion after accessing it.
