James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
JURGEN: A Comedy of Justice
Hall Code |
Description |
Jur-D13 (E) |
Thirteenth English Unillustrated Printing 1949 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: JURGEN | [in italic] A Comedy of Justice | [device of a single star] | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] With an introduction by Hugh Walpole | [Next five lines in italic] "Of JURGEN eke they maken mencioun, | That of an old wyf gat his youthe agoon, | And gat himself a shirte as bright as fire | Wherein to jape, yet gat not his desire | In any countrie ne condicioun." | THE BODLEY HEAD • LONDON (see image above).
Title page verso: [in italic] Limited Illustrated Edition 1921 | Unillustrated Edition 1923 | Reprinted 1923 | Reprinted 1923 | Reprinted 1924 | Reprinted 1925 | Reprinted 1926 | Reprinted 1926 | Reprinted 1928 | Reprinted 1939 | Reprinted 1932 | Reprinted 1938 | Reprinted 1949 | Printed in Great Britain by | RICHARD CLAY AND COMPANY, LTD., BUNGAY, SUFFOLK | for JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD., | 8 Bury Place, London, W.C.1 (see image above).
Publication:
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1949
Collation:
Large duodecimo [19 cm. (7½ in.) x 13 cm. (5⅛ in.)]; xvi + 326; (i)half-title; (ii) by the same author; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication; (vi) quotations; vii-viii Contents; ix-x Introduction by Hugh Walpole; (xi) fly-title: A FOREWORD (verso blank); xiii-xv text of foreword (verso blank); (1) fly-title (verso blank); 3-325 text (verso blank).
Binding:
Dark olive textured cloth (Winterbottom design IW); gilt lettering on spine, front cover blank; all edges trimmed. Spine [triple rule] JURGEN | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | THE | BODLEY HEAD | [triple rule] (see image above).
Dedication:
TO | BURTON RASCOE | [dedication in acrostic verse of three quatrains] (see image above).
Dust jacket:
Heavy orange paper, lettering in red and black (see image above).
Spine: James | Branch | Cabell | [device of a single star] | [in half-red decorative text] JURGEN | The | Bodley Head
Front panel: JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in half-red decorative text] JURGEN | 16th large impression | of this celebrated | masterpiece
Rear panel: [in italic] Ludwig Lewison | [in red] The | Case of | Mr. Crump | [in black] [9-line excerpt from review] | [in italic] Second Impression 10s 6d | [in red] THE BODLEY HEAD
Front flap: [10-line blurb, initial in red] | [in red italic] Sixteenth Edition 6s. net
Rear flap: [at bottom of flap] Printed in Great Britain for | John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd.
Notes:
The jacket statement that this is the "16th large impression" counts the thirteen unillustrated Lane printings, the 1921 illustrated edition, and the two Penguin Press editions (see image above).
