Full Title:

Title page recto: [in italic] The | Line of Love | Dizain des Mariages | By | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY | H. L. MENCKEN | [rule] | [in italic] "Ludit amor sensus, oculos perstringit, et aufert | Libertatum animi, mira nos fascinat arte. | Credo aliquis dæmon subiens præcordia flammam | Concitat, et raptam tollit de cardine mentem" | [rule] ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | NEW YORK - - - - - - 1923 (see image above).

Title page verso: Copyright, 1921, by | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | Copyright, 1905, by | HARPER & BROTHERS | [in italic] Second Printing | September, 1923 | Printed in the | United States of America | [rule] | Published, 1921 (see image above).

Publication:

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

Collation:

Crown octavo [20 cm. (7⅞ in.) x 13.3 cm. (5¼ in.)]; Pp. xvi+262, followed by 2 blank leaves. (i) Half-title; (ii) BOOKS by MR. CABELL; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); vii-xiii INTRODUCTION (verso blank); Contents (verso blank); (1) fly-title: THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY (verso blank); 3-5 text of THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY (verso blank); (7) fly-title: I; (8) quotation; 9-261 text (verso blank). Pages (1), (7), (33); (61); (85), (111), (143), (171), (201), (227), and (255) are fly-titles. Pages (32), (60), (84), (200), and (254) are blank.

Binding:

Kalki binding: red brick cloth, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, top edge trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: THE | LINE | OF | LOVE | [rule] | CABELL | McBRIDE. Front cover: [Kalki device in lower right] (see image above).

Dedication:

[rule ] | TO | ROBERT GAMBLE CABELL I | | "He loved chivalrye, | Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisye, | And of his port as meek as is a mayde, | He never yet no vileinye ne sayde | In al his lyf, unto no maner wight. | He was a verray parfit gentil knyght." [rule] (see image above).