Full Title:

Title page recto: DOMNEI | A COMEDY OF WOMAN-WORSHIP | BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY | JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER [three devices] | [in italic] "En cor gentil domnei per mort no passa." | JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LIMITED | LONDON [seven devices] (see image above).

Title page verso: [in italic] First Published in 1927 | Reprinted 1928| MADE AND PRINTED IN ENGLAND BY | THE GARDEN CITY PRESS LIMITED, LETCHWORTH, HERTS (see image above).

Publication:

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1928

Collation:

Crown octavo [18.9 cm. (7 7/16 in.) x 13.3 cm. (5 ¼ in.)]; Pp. 4 unnumbered pages of preliminaries + viii + 218 + 4 unnumbered pages of advertisements; leaf not counted in pagination: half-title recto, BY THE SAME AUTHOR verso; leaf not counted in pagination: recto blank, frontispiece verso; (i) title page; (ii) publication data; (iii) dedication (verso blank); (v) quotation (verso blank); vii-viii Contents; (1) fly-title: A PREFACE by Joseph Hergesheimer (verso blank), 3-9 text of preface (verso blank); (11) fly-title: CRITICAL COMMENT (verso blank); 13-14 text of Critical Comment; (15) poem "THE ARGUMENT" attributed to Sir William Allonby (verso blank); (17) fly-title: PART ONE; (18) attribution of the text to The Romance of Lusignan by Nicolas de Caen; 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; 4 unnumbered pages of advertisements. Pages (1), (11), (17), (51), (81), (139), (203), and (213) are fly-titles. Pages (iv), (vi), (2), (10), (12), (18), (52), (82), (138), (140), (202), (204), and (214) are blank.

Binding:

Blue cloth, black lettering and decorations on cover and spine; top edge trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: [triple decorated rule on blue field] DOMNEI | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [triple decorated rule on blue field]. Front cover: [all within triple decorated ruled boxes on blue field] DOMNEI | JAMES | BRANCH CABELL (see image above).

Frontispiece:

Pen and ink drawing of Perion kneeling before his lost image of Melicent, by Frank C. Pápe. Subscript reads [all enclosed in a decorated box, in decorative script] "Yet that which fayrest is, but Few beholde, | Her soul adornd with vertues manifold." (see image above).

Note: The image illustrates the last scene of the novel.

Dedication:

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