James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography

THE LINE OF LOVE: Dizain des Mariages

Hall Code
Description
LoL-B1 (K)
First Printing, Revised Edition 1921

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title page recto: [in italic] The | Line of Love | Dizain des Mariages | By | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY | H. L. MENCKEN | [device] | [in italic] "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" | [device] ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | NEW YORK - - - - - - 1921 (see image above).

Title page verso: Copyright, 1921, by | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | Copyright, 1905, by | HARPER & BROTHERS | [in italic] Printed in the | United States of America | [rule] | Published, 1921 (see image above).

Publication:

New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1921

Collation:

Crown octavo [20 cm. (7⅞ in.) x 13.3 cm. (5¼ in.)]; Pp. xvi+262, followed by 5 blank leaves. (i) Half-title; (ii) BOOKS by MR. CABELL; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); vii-xiii INTRODUCTION (verso blank); Contents (verso blank); (1) fly-title: THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY (verso blank); 3-5 text of THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY (verso blank); (7) fly-title: I; (8) quotation; 9-261 text (verso blank). Pages (1), (7), (33); (61); (85), (111), (143), (171), (201), (227), and (255) are fly-titles. Pages (32), (60), (84), (200), and (254) are blank.

Binding:

Kalki binding: red brick cloth, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, top edge trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: THE | LINE | OF | LOVE | [rule] | CABELL | McBRIDE. Front cover: [Kalki device in lower right] (see image above).

Dedication:

[rule ] | TO | ROBERT GAMBLE CABELL I | | "He loved chivalrye, | Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisye, | And of his port as meek as is a mayde, | He never yet no vileinye ne sayde | In al his lyf, unto no maner wight. | He was a verray parfit gentil knyght." [rule] (see image above).

Dust jacket:

White paper, black lettering and decorations (see image above).

Spine: THE | LINE | OF | LOVE | [rule] | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [McBride Liberty Bell device] | McBRIDE

Front panel: THE LINE OF LOVE | [in italic] New and Revised Edition | By JAMES BRANCH CABELL | With an Introduction by H. L. Mencken | [18-line blurb in three paragraphs] | [double rule] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & CO. | [in italic] SEVEN WEST SIXTEENTH STREET :-: :-: NEW YORK

Rear panel: The Books of James Branch Cabell | [double rule] | [list of 13 titles issued in the Kalki edition] | [in italic] At all Bookstores | [double rule] | ROBERT McBRIDE & CO., [in italic] Publishers | SEVEN WEST SIXTEENTH STREET :-: NEW YORK

Front flap: $2.00 Net

Rear flap: blank