Shelfmark
Ie4.5.20
Author
Title
Ulysses / by James Joyce; with an introduction by Stuart Gilbert; and illustrations by Henri Matisse.
Publication, distribution, etc.
New York : The Limited Editions Club, 1935.
Physical description
xvi, [2], 364, [2]p, [26] leaves of plates : ill. (etchings, lithographs) ; 30cm.
Note
Printed in black and brown.
Note
Plates are six soft-ground etchings, printed by hand, and twenty lithographic drawings, made as studies for the etchings, printed on thin blue or yellow paper.
Note
ECL copy: No. 604 of 15,000 copies made for the members of the Limited Editions Club, illustrated and signed by Henri Matisse, and designed by George Macy.
Provenance
Given to Eton College Library by Nicholas Kessler in 2010.
Binding
Wood substitute boards overlaid with varnished brown wood effect and multi-coloured weave effect decorated japanese paper ; light grey/brown leather spine with exposed bands ; red suede pastedowns and black card endpapers ; original brown cloth stamped with gold decoration bound with text ; housed in light grey/brown leather and black card box with green suede and leather lining ; bound by Jean de Gonet, in 2009 (binder's label on front pastedown), as commissioned by Nicholas Kessler.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Sbb1.4.04.
Copy-specific note
Part of the Nicholas Kessler Joyce Collection.
Copy-specific note
Previously I.Kes
Subject
Town and city life Fiction Ireland Dublin.
Subject
Bloom, Leopold (Fictitious character).
Subject
Men Fiction Ireland Dublin.
Added entry--name
Matisse, Henri, 1869 - 1954 artist.
Added entry--name
Macy, George book designer.
Added entry--name
Gonet, Jean de binder.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
United States New York.
Identifier
B24467