Full Title:

Title page recto: [all enclosed in an orange ornamental floral border] The Line of Love | by [enclosed in orange floral decoration] | James Branch Cabell | [orange floral decoration] | illustrated in color by | [orange floral decoration] | HOWARD PYLE | [orange floral decoration] | "Ludit amor sensus, oculos perstringit, et aufert | Libertatum animi, mira nos fascinat arte. | Credo aliquis dæmon subiens præcordia flammam | Concitat, et raptam tollit de cardine mentem" | [Harper's emblem enclosed in orange floral decoration] | NEW YORK AND LONDON | HARPER & BROTHERS | PUBLISHERS :: MCMV (see image above).

Title page verso: [all enclosed in a single line box] Copyright, 1905, by HARPER & BROTHERS. | [line] | [in italic] All rights reserved. | Published September, 1905 (see image above).

Publication:

New York and London; Harper & Brothers; September, 1905

Collation:

Demy octavo [22.7 cm. (9 in.) x 15.3 cm. (6 in.)], xi + 292 with 10 tipped-in color plates.

Blank recto, followed by color frontispiece on verso, with plain tissue guard; (i) title page; (ii) copyright page;  (iii) dedication (verso blank); (v) Contents (verso blank); (vii) Illustrations (verso blank); ix-(xii) Epistle Dedicatory; text (1)-(291); (292) blank. Pages (1), (43), (77), (117), (165), (207), and (251) are fly-titles. Pages (2), (44), (76), (78), (116), (118), (166), (208), (250, and (252) are blank.

Binding:

Coarse yellowish-green cloth; with white decorations of intertwined vines, leaves, and flowers on front and spine, lettering in dark green on front and spine. Plain trimmed top, otherwise untrimmed. Front cover: [all enclosed in decorative border] The Line of Love | [onlaid illustration] | James Branch Cabell. Spine: The | Line | of | Love | [enclosed in decorative border] J. B. | Cabell | Harpers.

The onlaid painting is a detail from an illustration by Howard Pyle for "The Story of Adhelmar", and originally appeared in Harper's Magazine, April, 1904 (see image above).

Frontispiece:

Painting by Howard Pyle of a jester in motley, playing a lute; subscribed " 'scant heed had we of the fleet, sweet hours' ". Protected by a plain glassine sheet (see image above). This illustration origInally appeared in the August, 1903, issue of Harpers Monthly Magazine, as an illustration for "The Castle of Content". It was there subscribed [in italic] "SMALL HEED HAD WE OF THE FLEET, SWEET HOURS".

Dedication:

[all enclosed in an orange ornamental floral border] TO | Robert Gamble Cabell | (1809-1889) | "He loved chivalrye, | Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisye, | And of his port as meek as is a mayde, | He never yet no vilein ne said | In al his lyf, unto no maner wight | He was a verray parfit gentil knyght" (see image above).

Endpapers:

Orange floral design on upper left and lower right corners of each page, on a cream background (see image above).

Notes:

Preliminary pages, fly-titles, and all pages of text are enclosed in orange ornamental floral borders.

The lettering on the spine and front cover of the first copy (top row, far left), which has been protected in a dust jacket since new, is a VERY dark green that almost looks black in normal light. The lettering on the second copy (top row, second from left), which has lost its jacket and been exposed to sunlight, is a noticeably lighter shade.