James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THE SOUL OF MELICENT: Illustrated in Colour by Howard Pyle
Hall Code |
Description |
Mel-A1a |
First Printing, Second State 1913 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: THE SOUL OF | MELICENT | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR BY | HOWARD PYLE | [ publisher's device] | NEW YORK | FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY | PUBLISHERS (see image above).
Title page verso: [in italic] Copyright, 1913, by | FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY | [in italic] Copyright, 1908, 1911 by | HARPER AND BROTHERS | [line] | [in italic] All rights reserved | [enclosed in single line box with Stokes monogram logo] [in italic] September, 1913 (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., September, 1913
Collation:
Post octavo [22 cm. (8 ¾ in.) x 14.2 cm. (5 ½ in.)] , (viii) + 216 with frontispiece and 3 tipped in color plates. Page (i) half title; (ii) list of books by Cabell, enclosed in a single line box; (iii) title page; (iv) copyright; (v) dedication; (vi) 14 lines of verse in italic; (vii-viii) Contents. Pages (1)-213 text; (214) blank; 215-216 Bibliography; pp. (1), (39), (75), and (135) are fly-titles; pp. (2), (38), (40), (74), and (135) are blank; illustrations face pp. 4, 42, and 122.
Binding:
Black cloth, gilt lettering on cover and spine, all edges trimmed. Spine: THE SOUL | [in italic] of | MELICENT | [line] | CABELL | STOKES. Front cover: THE SOUL of MELICENT | [enclosed in a blind stamped box] paste-down illustration | [device] JAMES BRANCH CABELL [device] | ILLUSTRATED BY HOWARD PYLE (see image above).
Frontispiece:
Color painting (by Howard Pyle) of a man drawing a sword while a woman looks on. Subscribed [in italic] "Demetrios wrenched the sword from its scabbard" (see image above).
Dedication:
TO | SARAH READ McADAMS | IN GRATITUDE AND AFFECTION (see image above).
Dust jacket:
Not seen, but possibly identical to that of the first issue. Mel-A1.
Notes:
Hall states that the gilt lettering on the spine is ... in a distinctly different type-setting [compared to the first issue]. As can be seen from the comparison above, the spine title and author's name are identical in both bindings. The difference is in the publisher's name at the base of the spine. In this issue, the typeface is different and the font is slightly larger.
