James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
CHIVALRY
Hall Code |
Description |
Chiv-A1 |
First Printing 1909 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [decorative border on top and sides] [all enclosed in a double line box, that enclosed in a red single line box] [in red] Chivalry | [in black] By | James Branch Cabell | “And I, according to my copy, and | after the simple cunning that God hath | sent to me, have down set this in print, | to the intent that noble men may see and | learn the noble acts of chivalry.” | Illustrated | Harper device in red | New York and London | [in red] Harper & Brothers Publishers | [in black] 1909 (see image above).
Title page verso: [all enclosed in a single line box] Copyright 1909, by HARPER & BROTHERS. | [line] | [in italic] All rights reserved. | Published October, 1909 (see image above).
Publication:
Collation:
Demy 8vo [22.5 cm. (8 7/8 in.) x 14.5 cm. (5 ¾ in.)], xii+223 with 12 tipped-in color plates. Blank leaf followed by color frontispiece; (i) title page (see above); (ii) copyright page (see above); (iii) dedication (verso blank); v-(vii), Precautional (verso blank); (ix) Contents (verso blank); (xi) list of Illustrations (verso blank); 1-224 text; color plates facing pp. 14, 50, 64, 78, 102, 132, 148, 170, 186, 198, & 222; blank pages at 74, 144, 152, 194, 225-226.
Binding:
Red cloth; with ornate green and white stamped decorations, and gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Top edge gilt, otherwise untrimmed. Spine: CHIVALRY | CABELL | HARPERS. Front Cover: CHIVALRY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL (see image above). The design of the binding is uniform with the first state of Gallantry (1907).
Frontispiece:
Color plate by Howard Pyle with tissue-guard, subscribed ‘I sing of death’ (see image above).
Dedication:
To | Anne Branch Cabell| [device] | “ainsi à vous, madame, à ma très haulte et | très noble dame, à qui j’ayme à devoir | attachment et obéissance, | j’envoye ce livret.” | [device] (see image above).
Endpapers:
Rose and white variegated paper (see image above).
Book is wrapped in a printed glassine jacket reading: CHIVALRY | By | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | Illustrated | Price, $2.00 net; all enclosed in an olive green gift box with a pasted-on color plate by Howard Pyle*. The words CHIVALRY | [in italic] by | JAMES BRANCH | CABELL frame the plate above and HARPER & BROTHERS NEW YORK frame it below (see images above).
*The Pyle plate used on the box lid originally appeared in the February, 1909 issue of Harper's Magazine, where it illustrated a story called " The Apple of Venus," by Marjorie Bowen. The original caption was The Precious Minutes Flew Past, But She Was Silent.
Notes:
The frontispiece and eight of the color plates are by Howard Pyle; two are by William Hurd Lawrence; and one is by Elizabeth Shippen Green.
