James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography

DOMNEI: A Comedy of Woman-Worship

Hall Code
Description
Dom-A3 (K)
Third Printing 1923

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title page recto: [in decorative italic] Domnei | [in italic] A Comedy of Woman-Worship | By | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | [in italic] "En cor gentil domnei per mort no passa" | [rule] | NEW YORK | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & CO. | 1923 (see image above).

Title page verso: Copyright, 1913, by | FREDERICK A. STOKES CO. | [rule] | Revised Edition, Copyright, 1920, | By JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] Second Printing | September, 1921 | Third Printing | September, 1923 | Printed in the | United States of America | Published, 1920 (see image above).

Publication:

New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., September, 1923

Collation:

Crown octavo [20 cm. (7⅞ in.) x 13.3 cm. (5¼ in.)]; Pp. x + 218; (i) half-title; (ii) BOOKS by MR. CABELL; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); (vii) quotation (verso blank); (ix)-(x) (marked as vii-viii, see note below) Contents; (1) fly-title: A PREFACE (verso blank); 3-9 text of Preface (verso blank); (11) fly-title: CRITICAL COMMENT (verso blank); (13)-(14) quotes attributed to E. Noel Codman and Paul Verville; (15) poem "THE ARGUMENT" attributed to Sir William Allonby; (16) attribution of the text to The Romance of Lusignan by Nicolas de Caen; (17) fly-title: PART ONE (verso blank); 19-201 text (verso blank); (203) fly-title: THE AFTERWORD (verso blank); 205-212 text of The Afterword; (213) fly-title BIBLIOGRAPHY (verso blank); 215-218 text of The Bibliography. Pages (1), (11), (17), (51), (81), (139), (203), and (213) are fly-titles. Pages (vi), (viii), (2), (10), (12), (18), (52), (82), (138), (140), (202), (204), and (214) are blank.

Note: Following the first Kalki printing, Dom-A1 (K), the preliminary pages were slightly rearranged: the quotation following the dedication was moved to page (vii), leaving the verso of the dedication page as blank. The verso of the quoatation page was also left blank. This relocated the Contents to pages ix-x, although they were still marked as vii-viii.

Binding:

Kalki binding: red-brick cloth, gilt lettering and decorations on spine and front cover, top edge trimmed, else untrimmd. Spine: DOMNEI | [rule] | CABELL | McBRIDE. Front cover: [Kalki device in lower right corner] (see image above).

Dedication:

TO | SARAH READ McADAMS | IN GRATITUDE AND AFFECTION (see image above).

Dust jacket:

Not seen.