Hall Code |
Description |
G3 |
Jurgen in Lino-Cuts 1926 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title recto: [all hand cut lino-cut block print] ] JURGEN [colored within decorative border] | [device] In Lino-cuts [device] | by | William John Bernhard | [block "B" device] | Privately Printed | MCMXXVI (see image above).
Title verso: blank.
Publication:
New York; privately printed; 1926.
Collation:
Royal quarto [32.4 cm. (12¾ in.) x 25.1 cm. (9⅞ in.)]; pp. (40); (1) blank leaf; (3) half-title (verso blank); (5) blank; (6) frontispiece; title page (verso blank); (7) limitation page (verso blank); (9) Contents (verso blank); (11) Contents, continued (verso blank); (13-38) 13 hand-colored illustrations (verso of each leaf blank); (39) blank leaf. Each printed page is protected by an unprinted tissue guard.
Binding:
Quarter bound, white art vellum spine with batik paper boards, hand-blocked white paper label on front cover. Spine: blank. Front cover: [all hand cut lino-cut block print] ] JURGEN [colored within decorative border] | [device] In Lino-cuts [device] | by | William John Bernhard (see image above).
Frontispiece:
[All hand cut lino-cut block print] Hand tinted portrait of Mr. Cabell, signed "William John Bernhard" in pencil (see image above).
Limitation:
[All hand cut lino-cut block print] Printed by hand from the original| blocks and colored. This one and | only edition is strictly limited to | fifty copies signed and numbered | of which this copy is no. [hand written] 10 | Signed [signature} William John Bernhard | Copyright 1926, by | William John Bernhard (see image above).
Dust jacket:
Brown paper. Front panel [in black] JURGEN [within decorative border] | [device] In Lino-cuts [device] | by | William John Bernhard. Spine, rear panel, and both flaps blank (see image above).