Books About James Branch Cabell
NOTES ON JURGEN, by James P. Cover
Hall Code |
Description |
E10 |
First Printing 1928 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [rule] | [in italic] Notes on Jurgen | BY | JAMES P. COVER | [McBride Liberty Bell device] | NEW YORK | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | 1928 (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1928 | BY ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | [in italic] Published, April, 1928 | NOTES ON JURGEN | [rule] | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | [rule] | BY THE PLIMPTON PRESS • NORWOOD • MASS. (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., April, 1928
Collation:
Royal octavo [24.6 cm. (9 11/16 in.) x 16.5 cm. (6½ in.)]. Pp. xii + 117; (i) half-title; (ii) limitation page; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); vii-x Foreword; (xi) IN EXPLANATION (verso blank); (1) fly-title (verso blank); 3-96 text; (97) fly-title (verso blank); 99-100 BIBLIOGRAPHY; fly-title (verso blank); 103-107 INDEX I (verso blank); 109 fly-title (verso blank); 111-116 INDEX II (verso blank).
Binding:
Quarter bound, art vellum spine over marbled paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, front cover blank; edges untrimmed. Spine: [double rule] | NOTES | ON | JURGEN | [device] | COVER | [double rule] | McBRIDE (see image above).
Limitation:
THERE have been printed eight hundred and | fifty copies of NOTES ON JURGEN of which | eight hundred and thirty-one are for sale | [in italic] This is number [handwritten in purple] 46
Dedication:
[in italic] To | MOTHER SEREDA | [in italic] "The Mrs. Grundy of the Léshy" | [12-line dedicatory verse in three quatrains]
Dust jacket / Slipcase:
Issued in an unmarked glassine dust jacket and unmarked cardboard slipcase covered in black paper (see image above).
Notes:
An expository lexicon of names, places, and references used in Jurgen.
