Full Title:

Title page recto:[all in green] THE | EAGLE'S SHADOW | By | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] Illustrated by Will Grefé | Decorated by Blanche Ostertag | device of plants in a heart shaped bed| New York | Doubleday, Page & Company | 1904 (see image above).

Title page verso: [all in green] [device of flowers] Copyright, 1904, by | The Curtis Publishing Company | Copyright, 1904, by | Doubleday, Page & Company | Published, October, 1904 | [in italic] An abridged version of this story appeared serially in THE SATURDAY EVENING POST | [in italic] during the summer of 1904. The novel is here given in its entirity | as originally conceived by the author (see image above).

Publication:

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, October, 1904.

Collation:

Crown octavo [20.3 cm. (8 in.) x 13.3 cm. (5 ¼ in.)], 3 blank leaves, xii + 258 with tipped-in frontispiece and 7 tipped-in illustrations. Preliminaries printed in green (i) half-title, verso blank; frontispiece; (iii) title page; (iv) publication page; (v) dedication, verso blank; (vii-viii) Contents; (ix-x) The Characters; (xi) List of Illustrations, verso blank; (1) sub-title, verso blank; 3-256 text; last leaf blank. Illustrations face pp. 8, 38, 60, 98, 154, 174, and 220.

Binding:

Red cloth: gilt lettering; gilt and white stamped decoration on front and spine, all edges trimmed. Spine: The | EAGLE'S | SHADOW | CABELL | device of a gilt American eagle and stars in a gilt circle, white ground | DOUBLEDAY | PAGE & CO. Front cover: [all enclosed in a blind stamped triple rule] The | EAGLE'S SHADOW | device of a gilt American eagle and stars in a gilt circle, white ground | JAMES BRANCH CABELL (see image above).

Frontispiece:

Drawing of a woman seated; subscribed "Margaret' [second quote defective] (see image above).

The drawing by Will Grefé used as the frontispiece originally appeared in the August 6, 1904, issue of The Saturday Evening Post, as an illustration for the first installment of the serial version of The Eagle's Shadow. The original caption was "BUT I DON'T WANT TO MARRY ANYBODY."

Dedication:

[all in green] [device of flowered branch piercing a heart] To | M. L. P. B. | [in italic] In trust that the enterprise may be judged | less by the merits of its factor than | by the of its patron (see image above).

"M. L. P. B." was Martha Louise Patteson Branch (1835 - 1908), Cabell's grandmother.

Endpapers:

[all in green] landscape drawing by Blanche Ostertag (see image above).

Notes:

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