Accession number
PML 197810
Creator
Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Published
London : Ulysses Bookshop, [1930]
Credit line
Gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Notes
"From the Fortnightly Review, London, April 1900."
The first separate edition of Joyce's earliest published piece: a review of Ibsen's play When We Dead Awaken, printed in the Fortnightly Review for 1 April 1900.
"40 copies of this book have been printed for private circulation... No copy for sale."
Library's copy numbered 37.
"Printed for the Ulysses Bookshop by H.D.C. Pepler. 11 : 3 : 30"--Colophon
The first separate edition of Joyce's earliest published piece: a review of Ibsen's play When We Dead Awaken, printed in the Fortnightly Review for 1 April 1900.
"40 copies of this book have been printed for private circulation... No copy for sale."
Library's copy numbered 37.
"Printed for the Ulysses Bookshop by H.D.C. Pepler. 11 : 3 : 30"--Colophon
Description
3 unnumbered leaves, 36, [1] pages ; 15 cm
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Reginald Baliol Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher (i.e. his son, Oliver Brett, according to Sotheby's); The James Joyce Collection of Alexander Neubauer (this item part of cat. no. 58); Sotheby's, London, 10 July 2012, lot 100; The Sean and Mary Kelly Collection; gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Binding
Publisher's quarter black cloth with purple sides; printed paper label on front cover. Housed in modern quarter blue morocco case with linen sides, spine lettered in gold.
Classification
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