James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
DOMNEI: A Comedy of Woman-Worship
Hall Code |
Description |
Dom-B2a (E) |
Second English Printing, Variant Binding 1928 |
COMPILATION
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:
Red cloth, black lettering cover and spine; top edge trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: DOMNEI | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | THE | BODLEY HEAD. Front cover: 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).
Dust jacket:
White paper, black lettering and decorations. We have observed two different variations of dust jacket. The first, as described below, is identical to the type we've seen on the first English printings. The second type differs only in lacking the price on the spine (see images above).
Spine: DOMNEI | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | 7/6 | NET | THE | BODLEY | HEAD
Front panel: DOMNEI | [pen and ink ilustration by Frank C. Pápe] | JAMES BRANCH CABELL
Rear panel: [all enclosed in a single ruled box] [in italic] BOOKS BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | [list of seven of Mr. Cabell's titles published by Lane] | [rule] | JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD., VIGO ST., W.1
Front flap: [all enclosed in a single ruled box] DOMNEI | [in italic] A Comedy of Woman | Worship | By | JAMES BRANCH | CABELL | With an Introduction | by | JOSEPH | HERGESHEIMER | [18-line blurb] | [rule] | JOHN LANE | The Bodley Head Ltd.
Rear flap: [all enclosed in a single ruled box] [in italic] By the Same Author | [rule] | SOMETHING | ABOUT EVE | [in italic] A Comedy of Fig- | Leaves | Second Edition | 7s. 6d. net. | 29-line blurb] | [rule] | JOHN LANE | The Bodley Head Ltd.
