Books About James Branch Cabell
The Romaunt of Manuel Pig-Tender |
From the Quarto of 1559, by Thomas Horan
Hall Code |
Description |
E12a |
Second Edition 1931 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [in red] The Romaunt of| Manuel Pig-Tender | [in black] From the Quarto of 1559 | Edited by | Thomas Horan | with Alternative Readings Supplied by | James Branch Cabell | Frontispiece by Frank C. Papé | [in red] Postprandial Press | [in black] Dalton : Georgia | 1931 (see image above).
Title page verso: This second edition of | The Romaunt of Manuel Pig-Tender | is limited to 500 copies. | This is number [handwritten in red over three dots] 25 (see image above).
Publication:
Dalton Georgia; The Postprandial Press, 1931.
Collation:
Duodecimo in wraps; 18.7 cm. (7⅜ in.) x 12.7 cm. (5 in.); pp. (vi) + (10); (i) half-title; (ii) frontispiece; (iii) title page; (iv) limitation; (v) Editor's Note (verso blank); (1-7) text, odd numbered pages Cantos I-Iv, even numbered pages blank; (9) Lenvoye (verso blank)
Grey or green wraps. Hall notes grey only, but in the notes hand-written into his working copy of the bibliography, he adds green. The Silver Stallion has seen both. Front cover: [in black] The Romaunt of | Manuel Pig-Tender | [illustration of Manuel on his charger, by Thomas Horan] (see image above).
Frontispiece:
[in black, enclosed in a red double ruled box] [a pen and ink drawing of Oriander the Swimmer, drawn for this publication by Frank C. Papé] | Fro Mimir and derke realms of pestilence, | Swam Oriander in his blinde presence (see image above).
The text is taken from from Canto Ii, lines 7 and 8, p. (3).