James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
TOWNSEND OF LICHFIELD: Dizain des Adieux
Hall Code |
Description |
ToL-A1 (S) |
First Printing 1930 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [wide spaced double rule] | [in red italic] Townsend of Lichfield | Dizain des Adieux | [rule] BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [Kalki device] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | NEW YORK · · · · MCMXXX | [rule] (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1921, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, | BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | [rule] | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., March, 1930
Collation:
Medium octavo [23.5 cm. (9¼ in.) x 15.9 cm (6¼ in.)]; pp. xviii + 358 as follows: P. (i) blank (verso certification as to the limitations of this edition); p. (iii) Half-title (verso single line Quotation in italics); p. (v) title-page (verso publication data); p. (vii) Dedication (verso blank); pp. ix-xi text of Author’s Note signed by the author; p. (xii) blank; p. xiii-xv Contents; p. (xvi) blank; p. (xvii) Synopsis (verso blank), followed by text p. (1)-355; p. (356) blank; p. (357) Publisher’s Colophon (verso blank); pp. (36), (40), (42), (80), (84), (102), (122), (190), (210), (226), (246), (256), (270), (272), (280), (316), (318), (322), (325), and (346) 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 | XVIII | TOWNSEND | OF | LICHFIELD | 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 eighteenth 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] 11 (see image above).
Dedication:
[in italic] For | WILLIAM DANA ORCUTT | THIS VOLUME WHICH COMPLETES OUR | HAPPILY SHARED LABORS (see image above).
Colophon:
This eighteenth volume of the Storisende Edition of | the works of JAMES BRANCH CABELL, containing | TOWNSEND OF LICHFIELD (first published in March, | 1930) and THE WHITE ROBE (first published in De- | cember, 1928) and THE WAY OF ECBEN (first pub- | lished in October, 1929) and TABOO (first published | in March, 1921) and SONNETS FROM ANTAN (first | published in June, 1929) and CONCERNING DAVID | JOGRAM (first published in March, 1930) and A | NOTE UPON CABELLIAN HARMONICS (first pub- | lished in November, 1928) and ABOUT THESE | BOOKS (first published in March, 1924) and A NOTE | UPON POICTESME (first published in October, 1928) | and ANOTHER NOTE ON LICHFIELD (first pub- | lished in October, 1927) and A LITTLE MORE | ABOUT EVE (fisr published in September, 1929) and | JURGEN AND THE LAW (first published in January, | 1923) and EVOLUTION OF THE BIOGRAPHY (first | published in March, 1930) and SOME OF THE ER- | RATA (first published in March, 1930), was designed | by William Dana Orcutt and printed and bound at | The Plimpton Press, Norwood, Massachusetts. It was | completed in February, 1930, after which the type | was destroyed. Issued in March, 1930, 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, as shown above. 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 the final volume of the Storisende Edition of the Works of James Branch Cabell, and the only one not previously published individually under its present title.
