Author: James Branch Cabell; Illustrated in color by Howard Pyle
Title: Gallantry: An Eighteenth Century Dizain in Ten Comedies, with an Afterpiece
Publication Information: New York and London Harper & Brothers Publishers 1907
Call #: PS3505 .A153 G3 1907
Book Size: 22.5 cm (H); 15.2 cm (l0; 3.8cm (spine)
Cover: front cover: geometric framing of edges, center medallion; title ("Gallantry") in rectangle towards the top, author's full name in rectangle towards bottom; note embossing of title and name in gold, and some other embossing in cover in silver; floral/curlicue patterns that fill in the geometrics in beige/off white (and often echo the geometric lines as well); plain back cover; spine ha s design elements coordinated with the front cover - and note the silver lines embossed (author's last name and "Gallantry" in gold), floral and geometric elements on spine in beige.
Inside Book Covers: front inside cover is plain; back inside cover is a green picture of a couple waling in a garden (note 18th-C clothes)
Paper Edges: top gilt; side and bottom pages are plain
Illustrations: list of illustrations included - frontispiece and three others by Pyle. The frontispiece, opposite the title page, shows a man standing on a wall, sword in hand, woman behind him, towering over a man (gypsy? Look at clothes) falling off the wall. The paper between the frontispiece and the title page says "The Death of Cazaio" . Note "H.P." in lower right corner
Comments:
- title page - gothic letters; graphic on top (almost like Perseus with Gorgon on his shield); floral vines down sides of title page. Epigraph: umite materium vestris, qui scribitis, aequam viribus, et versate diu, quid ferre recusent, quid valeant umeri"
- note the hands passing torch on the title page (and looks like Greek inscription here)
- "To the Memory of Midshipman James R. Branch killed at Annapolis, November 5, 1905 This volume, since it treats of gallantry, is dedicated, as both in life and death an exponent of the word's true and highest meaning"
- "A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand this..shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by law?" (no source given)
- note acknowledgment of stories appearing in Ainslee's Magazine, Appleton's Magazine, The Smart Set, Collier's Weekly, Harper's Magazine (dated June 13, 1907)
- The Epistle Dedicatory is addressed to Mrs. Grundy
- The Prologue ("Spoken by Lady Allon by who enters in a flurry") - as if this were a play - but the stories are presented as stories, not as play text
- Each story is introduced "as played at" and with a list of Dramatis Personae; all stories dated 1750 or 1755, often at Tunbridge Wells
- note illustration caption: "The Bastile is not a very healthy place"
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- Early 20th-Century American Text Production
- Representations of the British 18 th Century
- Nostalgia
- Magazine Publication
- Illustration
