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 first edition of | The Romaunt of Manuel Pig-Tender | is limited to 10 copies. | This is number [handwritten in red over three dots] 00 | [handwritten in red] Presentation Copy (see image above).

Publication:

Dalton Georgia; The Postprandial Press, 1931.

Collation:

Duodecimo in wraps; 18.9 cm. (7.4 in.) x 12.5 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)

Binding:

Copy #1: Buff wraps. Front cover: [in black on grey paper label] The Romaunt of | Manuel Pig-Tender | [in black on grey paper label: illustration of Manuel on his charger by Thomas Horan] (see image above).

Copy #2: Black wraps. Front cover: [in black on white paper label] The Romaunt of | Manuel Pig-Tender | [in black on white paper label: 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).

Notes:

The copy in buff wraps was presented to James Branch Cabell by Thomas Horan. This is the second variation of presentation copy The Silver Stallion has examined, and these clearly represent a later version of the book than the copy we show as *E12b1.

Both examples shown here reside in the Cabell Room at the James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University. The scans were provided to The Silver Stallion by Ray Bonis, Senior Research Associate.