James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography

JURGEN: A Comedy of Justice

Hall Code
Description
Jur-D10a (E)
Week-End Library Edition, Variant Binding 1932

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title page recto: [all enclosed in a triple ruled box, center rule diced] JURGEN | A Comedy of Justice | [in italic] by | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] with an introduction by | HUGH WALPOLE | JOHN LANE | THE BODLEY HEAD LTD. (see image above).

Title page verso: [in italic] First published in limited edition . . . . . . November 1921 | First unlimited edition . . . . . . . . January 1923 | Reprinted . . . . . . . . . . . March 1923 | Reprinted . . . . . . . . . . . August 1923 | Reprinted . . . . . . . . . . . January 1924 | Reprinted . . . . . . . . . . . May 1925 | Reprinted . . . . . . . . . . . February 1926 | Reprinted . . . . . . . . . . . October 1926 | Reprinted . . . . . . . . . . . May 1928 | Reprinted . . . . . . . . . . . December 1929 | First published in the Week End Library . . . . . . . 1932 | Made and Printed in Great Britain | by Jarrold & Sons, Ltd., Norwich (see image above).

Publication:

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1932

Collation:

Sextodecimo (foolscap octavo) [17.5 cm. (6⅞ in.) x 14.3 cm. (5⅝ in.)]; xvi + 334 + 1 blank leaf not counted in pagination; (i)half-title; (ii) list of titles in The Week-End Library; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication; (vi) quotations; vii-viii Introduction by Hugh Walpole; ix-x Contents; (xi) A FOREWORD (verso blank); xiii-xv text of foreword (verso blank); (1) fly-title (verso blank); 3-325 text (verso blank); (327-328) Critical opinion of James Branch Cabell; pp. (329-334) Publisher's advertisements; 1 blank leaf.

Binding:

Green cloth; gilt lettering and decorations on spine and front cover; all edges trimmed.. Spine: [all in gilt italic] JURGEN | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | THE | BODLEY | HEAD. Front cover: [Facsimile of Mr. Cabell's signature in lower right corner, in gilt] (see image above).

Dedication:

TO | BURTON RASCOE | [dedication in acrostic verse of three quatrains] (see image above).

Dust jacket:

Not seen.