The Silver Stallion
Cabell's Contributions to Books
A ROUND TABLE IN POICTESME
Hall Code |
Description |
Cabell Contribution(s) |
A8a |
Roxburghe Paper Printing |
The Author of the Eagle's Shadow |
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:
Octavo [21.6 cm. (8 9/16-in.) x 14 cm. (5½-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] 713 (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 small paper printing on Roxburghe Book Paper is traditionally considered to be the second issue.