James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
FROM THE HIDDEN WAY: Dizain des Échoes
[bound with]
THE JEWEL MERCHANTS: A Comedy of Echoes
Hall Code |
Description |
FHW-C1 (S) |
Storisende Edition |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [wide spaced double rule] | [in red italic] | From the Hidden Way | The Jewel Merchants | Dizain and Comedy of Echoes | [rule] BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [Kalki device] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | NEW YORK · · · · MCMXXIX | [rule] (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1916, 1921, 1924, 1929, BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., September, 1929
Collation:
Medium octavo [23.5 cm. (9¼ in.) x 15.9 cm (6¼ in.)]; 1 blank leaf + xxii + 284 pp.; blank leaf (not counted in pagination); (i) blank; (ii) limitation; (iii) series title / half-title; (iv) quotation; (v) title page; (vi) publication data; vii-(xv) Author's Note (signed by the author, verso blank); xvii-xx Contents of From the Hidden Way; xxi Contents of The Jewel Merchants (verso blank); (1) half-title, From the Hidden Way (verso blank); (3) dedication, From the Hidden Way (verso blank); (5) fly-title, Apologia Auctoris; (6) quotation; 7-14 text of Apologia Auctoris; 15-16 At Outset (verse); (17) fly-title, BOOK ONE; (18) quotation; 19-209 text of poems (verso blank); (211) fly-title, The Jewel Merchants; (212) quotation; (213) notice of reservation of acting rights (verso blank); (214) dedication, The Jewel Merchants (verso blank); 217-222 The Author's Prologue; (223) historical note (verso blank); (225) half-title, The Jewel Merchants (verso blank); (227) list of the original cast (verso blank); 229-270 text of play; (271) fly-title, An Appendix About Poor Jack (verso blank); (273) reproduction of the title page of Poor Jack (verso blank); 275-282 text of appendix; (283) colophon (verso blank). Pages (5), (17), (41), (61), (81), (97), (113), (127), (149), (169), and (185) are fly-titles. Pages (i), (xvi), (xxii), (2), (4), (168), (210), (214), (216), (224), (226), (228), (272), (274), and (284) are blank.
Binding:
Dark green cloth; gilt decorations and lettering on spine; top edges trimmed and gilded, otherwise untrimmed. Spine: [double rule] | THE WORKS | OF | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | XIII | FROM THE | HIDDEN WAY | [rule] | THE JEWEL | MERCHANTS | McBRIDE | [double rule]. Front cover: [all enclosed in a single line blind rule] [centered Kalki device in blind, enclosed in a double ruled circle in blind].
Limitation:
OF THIS thirteenth volume of the Storisende | Edition of the works of JAMES BRANCH | CABELL fifteen hundred and ninety copies | have been printed, of which fifteen hundred | and fifty are for sale in the United States and | England | [in italic] This copy is number [handwritten in red] 1183 (see image above).
Dedications:
From the Hidden Way: [in italic] To | BEVERLY BLAND MUNFORD | (31 May 1910) | [sonnet in two unequal stanzas] (see image above).
The Jewel Merchants: [in italic] For | LOUISE BURLEIGH | THIS LATEST AVATAR OF SO MANY NOTIONS | WHICH WERE ORIGINALLY HERS (see image above).
Colophon:
This thirteenth volume of the Storisende Edition | of the works of JAMES BRANCH CABELL, containing | FROM THE HIDDEN WAY (first published in Novem- | ber, 1916) and THE JEWEL MERCHANTS (first pub- | lished in December, 1921), was designed by William | Dana Orcutt and printed and bound at The Plimpton | Press, Norwood, Massachusetts. It was completed in | August, 1929, after which the type was destroyed. | Issued in September, 1929, by Robert M. McBride | & Company, New York. (see image above).
Dust jacket / Box:
Individual volumes of the Storisende Edition were not issued in dust jackets. Instead, each was wrapped in tissue and sealed. Early volumes in this set were sealed with adhesive paper dots. Later volumes were simply sealed with adhesive tape. Slipcases were provided for each group of three volumes issued together. The slipcases were sturdy cardboard covered in forest green paper, each with a paper label (see image of label above). For more information and photos, see the page for The Works of James Branch Cabell.
Notes:
This is Volume XIII of the Storisende Edition of the Works of James Branch Cabell
