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JURGEN: A Comedy of Justice
McBride Printings

Hall Code
Description
Jur-C3
First American Illustrated Edition, Third Printing 1927

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title page recto: JURGEN: | A COMEDY OF JUSTICE | BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS BY | RAY F. COYLE [row of three devices] | [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." | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | NEW YORK: 1927 [row of three devices] (see image above).

Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1919 | BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | ILLUSTRATED EDITION | COPYRIGHT, 1923 | BY ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | [in italic] Published, December, 1923 | Third Printing, August, 1927 | JURGEN: ILLUSTRATED EDITION | [rule] | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).

Publication:

New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., August, 1926

Collation:

Small royal octavo [24.4 cm. (9⅝ in.) x 16.5 cm. (6½ in.); 1 blank leaf + xii + 368, with 12 tipped-in illustrations including frontispiece (not counted in pagination); (1 blank leaf not included in pagination); (i) half-title; (ii) Books by Mr. Cabell; (not counted in pagination) recto blank, verso frontispiece; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication; (vi) quotations; (vii)-(viii) Contents; (ix) Illustrations (verso blank); (1) fly-title, A FOREWORD (verso blank); (3)-(6) text of foreword; (7) fly-title JURGEN (verso blank); 9-368 text. Illustrations face pages (iii) 16, 32, 64, 106, 148, 208, 236, 262, 276, 346, and 368.

Binding:

Black cloth, gilt lettering on spine and front cover; top edge trimmed and stained red, else untrimmed. Spine: [in decorative Gothic script] Jurgen | Cabell | [at base of spine] McBride. Front cover: [in decorative Gothic script] Jurgen | A Comedy of Justice | by | James Branch Cabell (see image above).

Frontispiece:

"I Am Jurgen Who Seeks He Knows Not What" [drawing by Ray F. Coyle] (see image above).

Dedication:

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

Endpapers:

Black and grey marbled paper (see image above).

Dust jacket:

Not seen.