The Joyce Book was published by the Sylvan Press and Humphrey Milford at the Oxford University Press. The work contains musical settings of the poems by composers who were under the wing of Hubert Foss. The collection was previously published as Pomes Penyeach in 1927 and 4 further edition were published before the work was printed in this new arrangement designed by Foss. Of this edition 500 copies of were published -- 450 were on sale by March 1933 at 42s. Joyce was delighted with the work and wrote his poem Pennipomes Twoguineaseach as a celebration.