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Finn's hotel / James Joyce ; edited & arranged by Danis Rose ; introduced by Seamus Dane ; illuminated by Casey Sorry ; typography by Michael Caine.
First edition.
Dublin : Ithys Press, 2013 (Paris : Atelier de la Cerisaie)
[100] p. : ill. ; 33 cm. (fol.)
"This edition is limited to 180 copies: of 40 head copies on Zerkall mouldmade, 10 signed deluxe copies I-X are housed in bespoke bindings featuring the handmarbling of Antonio Velez Celemin of Madrid, and 26 copies lettered A-Z & 4 copies hors commerce are issued in paper wrappers within clamshell boxes; 140 numbered copies on Fedrigoni vellum are presented in Elisabeth Hyder's printed paper over boards. The edition has been handbound by Tom Duffy in Dublin's 5 Lamps"--Colophon.
"This first edition ... has been designed & printed letterpress by Michael Caine at the Atelier de la Cerisaie, Paris, for Ithys Press, Dublin."
Lettered issue presented as a loose-leaf book of ten signatures, deckled edges.
Given to ECL by Nicholas Kessler, 2016.
Inscribed on title-page 'Caine copy', i.e. the printer's copy, signed by Michael Caine.
Bookplate of Nicholas Kessler.
Unbound, in paper wrappers, black paper spine, covers of black paper with silver spots. Housed in clam-shell box with black buckram spine and cover of same paper.
ECL copy numbered HCii/iv [copy 2 hors commerce].
Housed in box with copy of James Joyce, The lion's mouth, Paris: Oiseau bleu, 2014, in uniform loose wrappers.
Part of the Nicholas Kessler Joyce Collection.
Previously I.Kes
Joyce, James, 1882 - 1941 Finnegans wake.
Rose, Danis editor.
Sorrow, Casey illustrator.
Caine, Michael Christopher typographer.
Ithys Press Ltd. publisher.
Atelier de la Cerisaie printer.
Ireland Dublin.
France Paris.
B43415