Accession number
PML 197878
Creator
Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Published
San Francisco : Arion Press, 1988.
Credit line
Gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Notes
Illustrations: 40 etchings, comprised of 22 line etchings (20 in colors) and 18 etched Roman numerals.
"Ulysses by James Joyce is the twenty-seventh publication by the Arion Press. The book was designed by Andrew Hoyem and produced under his direction...The type is Perpetua...The text paper is a special making of French mould-made Johannot. A heavier weight of Johannot was used for the forty prints by Robert Motherwell."--Colophon.
Library has copy number 116.
Includes color-illustrated prospectus for the publication ([24] pages ;16 x 24 cm; white wrappers).
"Ulysses by James Joyce is the twenty-seventh publication by the Arion Press. The book was designed by Andrew Hoyem and produced under his direction...The type is Perpetua...The text paper is a special making of French mould-made Johannot. A heavier weight of Johannot was used for the forty prints by Robert Motherwell."--Colophon.
Library has copy number 116.
Includes color-illustrated prospectus for the publication ([24] pages ;16 x 24 cm; white wrappers).
Description
835 pages, [40] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), portrait ; 32 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed by the artist Robert Motherwell on preliminary leaf, as issued.
Provenance
Phillips, 25 January 2012, lot 41; The Sean and Mary Kelly Collection; gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Binding
Bound by hand at Arion Press in white alum-tawed pigskin on the spine and over the fore-edge of white-flecked blue cloth-covered boards, spine lettering in blue; issued in matching blue cloth slipcase, with white paper label, printed in blue.
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