James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THE LINE OF LOVE: Dizain des Mariages
Hall Code |
Description |
LoL-D1a (E) |
English Edition, variant binding 1929 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: THE LINE OF LOVE | [in italic] Dizain des Mariages | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY | H. L. MENCKEN | LUDIT AMOR SENSUS, OCULOS PERSTRINGIT, ET AUFERT | LIBERTATEM ANIMI, MIRA NOS FASCINAT ARTE. | CREDO ALIQUIS DÆMON SUBIENS PRÆCORDIA FLAMMAM | CONCITAT, ET RAPTAM TOLLIT DE CARDINE MENTEM. | LONDON | JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LIMITED (see image above).
Title page verso: [in italic] First Published in 1929 | PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN FROM ELECTRO-PLATES | BY JARROLD AND SONS, LTD., | NORWICH (see image above).
Publication:
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1929
Collation:
Crown octavo [19.1 cm. (7½ in.) x 13.7 cm. (5⅜ in.)]; xvi+264 pp.. (i) Half-title; (ii) BY THE SAME AUTHOR; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); vii-xiii INTRODUCTION (verso blank); (xv) 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); (263)-(264) advertisements. 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:
Black cloth, gilt lettering on spine and front cover; top edge trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: [in italic] THE LINE | OF LOVE | [double rule] | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | THE BODLEY HEAD. Front cover: [in italic] THE LINE OF LOVE | [double rule] | JAMES BRANCH | CABELL (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 | Dizain des Mariages | JAMES BRANCH | CABELL | 7/6 | NET | THE | BODLEY | HEAD
Front panel: THE LINE OF LOVE | Dizain des Mariages | With sn Introduction by | H. L. MENCKEN | [15-line blurb in two paragraphs] | JAMES BRANCH CABELL
Rear panel: [all enclosed in a double ruled box] [in italic] James Branch Cabell | [device] | [list of 13 titles by Mr. Cabell published by John Lane] | [device] | 7s. 6d. net, each volume. | JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD., | VIGO XTREET, W.1
Front flap: [in italic] By the Same Author | GALLANTRY | Dizain des Fêtes Galantes | [two quotes from reviews of Gallantry] | [in italic] The Bodley Head
Rear flap: [in italic] By the Same Author | THE WHITE ROBE : | A Saint's Summary | With Illustrations and | decorations by | ROBERT E. LOCHER | [in italic] Limited to 200 copies for sale in | England. | Medium 4to. £2 12s. 6d. | [14-line blurb for The White Robe] | [in italic] The Bodley Head
Notes:
Printed from electroplates of the Kalki edition.
