James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THE CORDS OF VANITY: A Comedy of Shirking
Hall Code |
Description |
CoV-C3 (K) |
Third Printing, Revised Edition |
COMPILATION
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. | 1921 (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] Third Printing | September, 1921 | Printed in the United States of America | Second Printing December, 1920 | Published 1920 (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, September, 1921
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 | McBRIDE; 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).
Dust jacket:
Not seen.
Notes:
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.”
