Full Title:

Title page recto: [all enclosed in a red single ruled box crossed by two horizontal rules to form three compartments] [in italic] The | Lineage of Lichfield | An Essay in Eugenics | By | James Branch Cabell | [red rule] | [in italic] . . . atavis edite regibus, | o et præsidium et dulce decus meum | [red rule] | NEW YORK | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | 1922 (see image above).

Title page verso: Copyright, 1922, | by | JAMES BRANCH CABELL (see image above).

Publication:

New York: Robert M. McBride, 1922

Collation:

Thin demy octavo [ 19 cm. (8½ in.) x 14 cm. (5½ in.)], all edges untrimmed. Pp. (ii)+46; (i) half-title (verso blank); (1) limitation; (2) BOOKS by MR. CABELL; (3) title page; (4) publication data; (5) sub-title (verso blank); 7-17 The Epistle Dedicatory (verso blank); (19) fly-title; (20) Genealogical Note; 21-46 text.

Binding:

Kalki binding: Brick-red cloth; gilt lettering and decoration on spine and front cover. Lettered down the spine: [in italic]The LINEAGE OF LICHFIELD - CABELL. Front cover: Kalki device at lower right (see image above).

Limitation:

[in italic] This edition of The Lineage of Lichfield is | limited to three hundred and sixty-five num- | bered copies printed from type, each copy | signed by the author. | Copy number [handwritten in red, underlined] 206 | author's signature in black (see image above).

Dedication:

[in italic] The Epistle Dedicatory | to Lewis Galantiére | [followed by dedication essay pp. 7-17 (verso blank)] (see image of the first page above).

Notes:

The Latin quotation on the title page is taken from The Odes of Horace, Ode 1, Dedication. As translated by the Rev. J.S.L. Hatton, B.A., London, Seeley & Co., 1890, it reads:

. . . son of ancestral kings, my strength, my joy and pride.