Full Title:

Title page recto: [in decorative script] The | Cords of Vanity| [rule broken by the tail of "of" in the line above] | [in italic] A Comedy of Shirking | [rule] | By | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | With an introduction by Wilson Follett | [in italic] "Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords | of vanity! . . . . . their root shall be as rottenness | and their blossom shall go up as dust." | NEW YORK | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & CO. | 1920 (see image above).

Title page verso: Copyright, 1909, by Doubleday, Page & Co. | Copyright, 1918, by James Branch Cabell. | Revised Edition, copyright, 1920, by | James Branch Cabell. | [in italic] Printed in the United States of America | Published 1920 (see image above).

Publication:

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1920

Collation:

xx

Binding:

Kalki binding: red-brick cloth, gilt lettering and decorations on spine and front cover, top edge trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: THE | CORDS | OF | VANITY | [rule] | CABELL | M^cBRIDE; Front cover: Kalki device at lower right (see image above).

Dedication:

[rule] To | GABRIELLE BROOKE MONCURE | [in italic] Plus sapis vulgus, quia tantum, quantum | opus est, sapit. | [rule] (see image above).

Notes:

Richard LeGallienne reviewed the revised versions of Domnei and The Cords of Vanity in the New York Times, February 13, 1921, under the title James Branch Cabell: "Master of the Pastiche" (Brewer A120). You can access a copy of this review by clicking on the thumbnail at left.

The quotation on the title page is from Isaiah 5:18 of the King James Version of the Bible. The Latin phrase in the dedication translates as “The common people are wise because they know only as much as is necessary.”