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:

Dark green cloth. Plain trimmed top, otherwise untrimmed. Front cover: The Line of Love | JAMES BRANCH CABELL. Spine: The | Line | of | Love | J. B. | Cabell | Harpers.

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:

Hall notes this binding in red (only, LoL-A1c), but we have also seen it in light brown (*LoL-A1e) and dark green (this issue).

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