Full Title:

Title page recto: The Cords of Vanity | [in italic] By | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | publisher's device | LONDON| HUTCHINSON & CO. | Paternoster Row | 1909 (see image above).

Title page verso: PRINTED IN NEW YORK, U.S.A. | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION| INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN (see image above).

Publication:

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1909

Brussel reports that the first state of the English issue was released on August 31, 1909. This issue, without the Hutchinson catalog, would presumably have been released later.

Collation:

Crown octavo [19.3 cm. (7 ⅝ in.) x 12.5 cm. (5 in.)], xx + 342 with tipped-in frontispiece. Page (1) half-title (verso blank); tipped-in frontispiece; (iii) cancel title page; (v) Dedication (verso blank); (vii) six-line prose quotation (verso blank); ix-x Contents; xi-xx Prologue; (1) fly-title (verso blank); 3-341 text; (342-344) blank.

Binding:

Light red cloth; gilt printing on spine and front; all edges trimmed. Spine: THE | CORDS | OF | VANITY | JAMES BRANCH| CABELL | HUTCHINSON & Co. (last letter raised). Front cover: [all enclosed in a single line white rule] THE CORDS OF VANITY | (see image above).

Frontispiece:

Painting of a man seated; subscribed "I ADORED WITHIN THESE FOUR YEARS PRECISELY A DOZEN GIRLS, | AND . . . WROTE VERSES OF THEM." The painting is by C. Coles, Phillips, and is signed C. COLES PHILLIP" (sic). Phillips was a popular magazine illustrator of the period, and the work is in his unique "fadeaway" style (see image above).

Dedication:

TO | GABRIELLE BROOKE MONCURE | [in italic] Plus sapit vulgus, quia lantum, quantum opus est, sapit. (see image above).

Notes:

See the issue notes on index page for The Cords of Vanity.