Accession number
PML 197774
Creator
Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Published
London : Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street, 1907.
Credit line
Gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Notes
First edition.
Title within elaborate illustrated border.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-E⁴.
"Gilbert & Rivington Ltd., Clerkenwell, London"--Verso of title page.
Edition of 509 copies, according to Gorman (Cf. Slocum & Cahoon).
Title within elaborate illustrated border.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-E⁴.
"Gilbert & Rivington Ltd., Clerkenwell, London"--Verso of title page.
Edition of 509 copies, according to Gorman (Cf. Slocum & Cahoon).
Description
[40] pages ; 16.3 x 11 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Presentation inscription from the author on front flyleaf: To Cyril Corrigan / James Joyce / London / 31.viii.[1]925.
Provenance
Inscribed by Joyce to Cyril Corrigan, 1925; Bloomsbury, 28 May 1987, lot 97; Dennis M. Silverman (his collector's box); Glenn Horowitz, James Joyce: Books & Manuscripts (1996), no. 12; The Library of an English Bibliophile, Sotheby's (London) 24 Nov. 2015, lot 67; The Sean and Mary Kelly Collection; gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Binding
Publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt (second binding variant, with thick wove endpapers and poems poorly centered in sig. C; however, height of boards closer to first variant); wanting transparent tissue wrapper. Housed in black cloth chemise and quarter black morocco slipcase, lettered in gold on spine, gilt vignette of book and net and initials DMS stamped on cover.
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