Accession number
PML 197805
Creator
Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Published
New York : The Limited Editions Club, 1935.
Credit line
Gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Notes
Illustrated with six soft-ground etchings, and 20 reproductions of studies on blue or yellow paper of varying sizes.
"This edition ... consists of fifteen hundred copies ... The illustrative etchings and drawings having been created especially for this edition by Henri Matisse. The edition was designed by George Macy and printed at the Printing-Office of The Limited Editions Club..."--Colophon.
Library's copy numbered 1152--one of the 250 copies signed in the colophon by both author and artist, from a total edition of 1500.
Text printed by E.L. Hildreth & Co., Brattleboro, VT (despite colophon statement); the studies were printed by Duenewald; the etchings by Photogravure & Color Co. (cf. Bidwell).
"This edition ... consists of fifteen hundred copies ... The illustrative etchings and drawings having been created especially for this edition by Henri Matisse. The edition was designed by George Macy and printed at the Printing-Office of The Limited Editions Club..."--Colophon.
Library's copy numbered 1152--one of the 250 copies signed in the colophon by both author and artist, from a total edition of 1500.
Text printed by E.L. Hildreth & Co., Brattleboro, VT (despite colophon statement); the studies were printed by Duenewald; the etchings by Photogravure & Color Co. (cf. Bidwell).
Description
xv, 363 pages, [26] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed by James Joyce in ink and Henri Matisse in pencil, as issued.
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 8 July 2004, lot 208; The Sean and Mary Kelly Collection; gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Binding
Publisher's brown cloth, with gilt decoration stamped and embossed on upper board and spine from a design by LeRoy H. Appleton, based on Matisse's etching for Ulysse et Nausicaa; spine lettered in gold; executed by George McKibbin & Son and issued in tan cardboard slipcase.
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