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JOYCE, James Aloysius (1882-1941) and Henri MATISSE (1869-1954, artist). Ulysses ... with an Introduction by Stuart Gilbert. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935.
4° (296 x 228mm). Running titles and page numbers printed in brown, text in double columns in black, each chapter with headpiece after LeRoy H. Appleton. 6 soft-ground etched plates by and after Matisse, 20 reproductions of preliminary drawings printed on blue and yellow paper. Original brown buckram gilt, the upper cover gilt-blocked in relief with a design after Appleton incorporating a detail from one of Matisse's etchings, the spine decorated and lettered in gilt, top edge brown-speckled, others uncut (unobtrusive small paint-mark at foot of spine, short splits on hinges).
LIMITED TO 1,500 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 360 OF 1,250 SIGNED BY MATISSE. The text of the present edition is taken from the second impression of the Odyssey Press edition published in Hamburg in 1933, which was revised by Stuart Gilbert, and, Slocum and Cahoon wrote in 1953, 'is therefore the most accurate text [...] that has been published in the United States'. The American editions that preceded it were the pirated -- and corrupt -- 'ninth' edition published by Samuel and Max Roth in 1929, and the first authorised American edition (published by Random House in 1934) which was based on the Roths' piracy and added some fresh errors. The present edition (which precedes by one year the first edition printed in England) was therefore the best published in America during Joyce's lifetime, with his authority, and under his supervision.
Matisse had not read Ulysses prior to illustrating it (due in part to his inability to obtain a copy, cf. Duthuit p.37), and decided to produce etchings representing 6 scenes from Homer's Odyssey; 'the preparatory drawings reproduced with the soft-ground etchings (Matisse's only use of this medium) record the evolution of the figures from vigorous sketches to closely knit, if less spontaneous, compositions' (The Artist and the Book 1860-1960). The Artist and the Book 1860-1960 197; Duthuit Henri Matisse ... ouvrages illustrés 6; Slocum and Cahoon A22.
4° (296 x 228mm). Running titles and page numbers printed in brown, text in double columns in black, each chapter with headpiece after LeRoy H. Appleton. 6 soft-ground etched plates by and after Matisse, 20 reproductions of preliminary drawings printed on blue and yellow paper. Original brown buckram gilt, the upper cover gilt-blocked in relief with a design after Appleton incorporating a detail from one of Matisse's etchings, the spine decorated and lettered in gilt, top edge brown-speckled, others uncut (unobtrusive small paint-mark at foot of spine, short splits on hinges).
LIMITED TO 1,500 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 360 OF 1,250 SIGNED BY MATISSE. The text of the present edition is taken from the second impression of the Odyssey Press edition published in Hamburg in 1933, which was revised by Stuart Gilbert, and, Slocum and Cahoon wrote in 1953, 'is therefore the most accurate text [...] that has been published in the United States'. The American editions that preceded it were the pirated -- and corrupt -- 'ninth' edition published by Samuel and Max Roth in 1929, and the first authorised American edition (published by Random House in 1934) which was based on the Roths' piracy and added some fresh errors. The present edition (which precedes by one year the first edition printed in England) was therefore the best published in America during Joyce's lifetime, with his authority, and under his supervision.
Matisse had not read Ulysses prior to illustrating it (due in part to his inability to obtain a copy, cf. Duthuit p.37), and decided to produce etchings representing 6 scenes from Homer's Odyssey; 'the preparatory drawings reproduced with the soft-ground etchings (Matisse's only use of this medium) record the evolution of the figures from vigorous sketches to closely knit, if less spontaneous, compositions' (The Artist and the Book 1860-1960). The Artist and the Book 1860-1960 197; Duthuit Henri Matisse ... ouvrages illustrés 6; Slocum and Cahoon A22.