James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
JURGEN: A Comedy of Justice
Hall Code |
Description |
Jur-I1 |
Golden Cockerel Press Edition 1949 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
[all enclosed in a woodcut border of leaves] JURGEN | A Comedy of Justice | by James Branch Cabell | with Wood Engravings by | John Buckland Wright | [woodcut device of a faun playing panpipes] | Printed in England at | The Golden Cockerel Press (see image above).
Colophon:
This edition of Jurgen with sixteen engravings by | John Buckland-Wright has been produced in 1949 by | Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, | London. It is limited to 500 numbered copies, of which | Nos: 1-100 are specially bound and contain one extra | engraving. No: 233 (see image above).
Collation:
Royal 8vo [25.5 cm. (10 in.) x 16 cm. (6 ΒΌ in.)], 350 pp. Printed with Caslon Old Face 14 pt type with Vesta titling on mould-made paper. (1) Blank leaf, (2) woodcut frontispiece; (3) title page (see above); (4) verso of title page blank; 5-6 foreword; 7-349 text; woodcut illustrations facing pp. 21, 39, 65, 81, 101, 121, 141, 167, 183, 215, 235, 257, 301, 331; colophon at p. 350.
Binding:
Quarter purple calf with scarlet canvas boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt decoration on front panel. Top edge gilt, otherwise untrimmed. Spine: JURGEN | gilt device of cockerel (see image above).
Frontispiece:
Woodcut by John Buckland-Wright of Jurgen's meeting with the black gentleman (see image above).
Dedication:
Cabell dedicated Jurgen to Burton Rascoe with an acrostic verse, but the dedication was not included in this printing.
Dust jacket / Slipcase:
No dust jacket seen, and none noted in any bibliography.
Notes:
The "sixteen engravings" mentioned in the colophon include the frontispiece, engraved title page recto, and the fourteen illustrations interspersed into the text.