Full Title:

Title page recto: [all enclosed in a decorative border by Frank Papé] DOMNEI | [in italic] A Comedy of Woman-Worship | By | James Branch Cabell | Illustrated by Frank C. Papé | [in italic] "En cor gentil | domnei per | mort no passa." | London | John Lane The Bodley Head | limited (see image above).

Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1920, 1926, 1928, BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | FIRST PUBLISHED, SEPTEMBER, 1913 | ILLUSTRATED EDITION, OCTOBER, 1930 | [in italic] [First Impression] | Illustrations Reproduced in Photogravure | by Elson Company, Inc., Belmont, Massachusetts | THE PLIMPTON PRESS · NORWOOD · MASSACHUSETTS | [rule] | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).

Publication:

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1930

Collation:

Small royal octavo [24.3 cm. (9 9/16 in.) x 16.5 cm. (6½ in.)]; xx + 252 pp.; (i) half-title; (ii) Books by Mr. Cabell; (leaf not counted in pagination) recto blank, verso frontispiece; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); (vii) quotation (verso blank); ix-x Contents; xi Illustrations (verso blank); (xiii) fly-title, Critical Comment (verso blank); xv-xvii text of Critical Comment (verso blank); (xix) The Argument; (xx) quotation; (1) half-title PART ONE; (2) chapter heading (illustration); 3-235 text of Domnei (verso blank); (237) fly-title, THE AFTERWORD; (238) quotation; 239-246 text of THE AFTERWORD; (247) fly-title, BIBLIOGRAPHY; (248) quotation; 249-252 text of BIBLIOGRAPHY. Pages (xiii), (1), (9), (15), (27), (35), (41), (47), (57), (65), (73), (81), (87), (93), (101), (111), (119), (125), (135), (141), (149), (157), (165), (173), (183), (189), (197), (203), (209), (217), (226), (237), and (247) are fly-titles. The versos of fly-titles on pages (1) through (217) are chapter headings (full page illustrations integral with the text block). Pages (vi), (14), (26), (56), (64), (92), (100), (124), (134), (140), (148), (156), (188), (208), (216), (234), and (236) are blank. Ten tipped-in illustrations face pages (iii), 18, 24, 38, 52, 84, 116, 132, 176, and 228. All tipped-in illustrations including the frontispiece are protected by unmarked tissue guards.

Binding:

Black cloth, gilt lettering and decorations on spine and front cover; top edge trimmed and stained, else untrimmed. Copies are known with both red and green stained tops.

Spine: DOMNEI | JAMES BRANCH | CABELL [device] | ILLUSTRATED BY | FRANK C. PAPÉ | [at base of spine] [drawing by Papé used as decoration] | THE BODLEY | HEAD (see image above).

Front cover: DOMNEI [device] | BY · JAMES BRANCH CABELL [device] | ILLVSTRATED BY FRANK C. PAPÉ (see image above).

Frontispiece:

illustration by Frank Papé: "Then Demetrious went into the sacred grove | upon the hillsides." (protected by unmarked tissue guard) (see image above).

Dedication:

[in italic] To | SARAH READ McADAMS | IN GRATITUDE AND AFFECTION (see image above).

Endpapers:

Tan paper printed in sepia. Mirror image illustrations by Frank Papé: Melicent, holding aloft the lamp of Ahasuerus, is descending the Queen's Stairway to the Court of Stars, with Perion standing at the foot over the body of Orestes (see image above).

Notes:

Printed from imported sheets. Title page is not a cancel, but is integral with the first gather.