The Silver Stallion

Cabell's Contributions to Books

A ROUND TABLE IN POICTESME

Hall Code
Description
Cabell Contribution(s)
A8
Vellum Paper Printing
The Author of the Eagle's Shadow

IMAGES

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title page recto: [in red] A Round-Table in | Poictesme | A Symposium | Edited by | DON BREGENZER | and | SAMUEL LOVEMAN | [8-line quotation in italic from Anatole France] | Privately Printed | by Members of | [in red] THE COLOPHON CLUB | Cleveland | 1924 (see image above).

Title page verso: Copyright 1924 | by Don Bregenzer and Samuel Loveman | [rule] | Published March, 1924 (see image above).

Publication:

Cleveland: The Colophon Club; 1924.

Collation:

Medium octavo [23.6 cm. (9¼-in.) x 15.8 cm. (6¼-in.)]; 1 blank leaf + xii + 126 + 2 blank leaves. blank leaf; (i) half-title (verso blank); (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) limitation page (verso blank); vii-viii CONTENTS; ix-xi FOREWARD; (xii) quotation from Jurgen; (1) fly-title) (verso blank); (3) fly-title; (4) quotation from The Certain Hour; 5-126 text; 2 blank leaves.

Binding:

Brown cloth; gilt lettering and decoration on spine and front cover. Spine: [lettered down] A ROUND-TABLE IN POICTESME. Front cover: [decoration at lower right] (see image above).

Limitation:

[in italic] This Edition of A ROUND-TABLE IN POICTESME | consists of 774 numbered copies as follows: two hundred | and forty-eight copies on American vellum, bound in | cloth, and five hundred and twenty-six copies on Rox- | burge book paper bound in cloth. This is | COPY NO. [hand written in red] 82 (see image above).

Dedication:

none

Dust jacket:

Brown paper printed in black on spine and front panel only (see image above).

Spine: [lettered down] A ROUND-TABLE [in italic] in POICTESME

Front panel: [all enclosed in a ruled box enclosing a decorated box enclosing a ruled box] A Round-Table | in | Poictesme | [device} | A Symposium | [in italic] Contributors: | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | CHRISTOPHER MORELY | EDWIN MEADE ROBINSON | BURTON RASCOE | ERNEST BOYD | H. L. MENCKEN | and others | [device] [in italic] Limited Edition

Notes:

This large paper edition on book vellum is traditionally considered to be the first issue.