Signed “RM” in pencil lower right

Numbered in pencil lower right

40

5 AP, numbered I/V–V/V
10 HC

Plate preparation and proofing by Catherine Mosley, artist’s studio, Greenwich, Connecticut; edition printing by Robert Townsend at R.E. Townsend, Georgetown, Massachusetts

Designed and produced by Andrew Hoyem at Arion Press, San Francisco, assisted by G. B. Carson, Matthew Keysey, Gerald Reddan, Glenn Todd, Lawrence Van Velzer, and Marilyn Young. Keyboard typesetting by Michael Bixler’s Monotype service, Skaneateles, New York. Casting by Lewish Mitchell at Mackenzie-Harris Corp., San Francisco

B 384 - 405

James Joyce

Portfolio

14 x 10 3/4 x 1 3/4 in. (35.5 x 27.3 x 4.5 cm)

A suite of 22 etchings from the illustrated book each 13 x 10 in. (33 x 25.4 cm) on Johannot paper. Each etching is presented loose as issued in a white paper wrapper that contains a thumbnail of the image, a sequence number, and the identifying Joyce schema on the front printed in black. Thumbnail image sizes are as follows: frontispiece (A), 2 1/8 x 3 in. (5.4 x 7.6 cm); frontispiece (B), 3 x 3 in. (5.4 x 7.6 cm); thumnail images for chapters 1-18 and tailpiece (A), 2 1/8 x 3 in. (5.4 x 7.6 cm); tailpiece (B), 3 x 3 1/16 in. (7.6 x 7.8 cm).

The etchings are enclosed in a clamshell box covered in blue cloth with white flecks with a printed label pasted to the front that reads: “Robert Motherwell/Etchings for the Arion Press Edition/of the Novel by James Joyce/Ulysses/An Extra Suite of Twenty-two Prints.” The box is lined with white paper.

Perpetua, designed by Eric Gill

Limitation sheet with title, "Etchings by / Robert Motherwell / for / Ulysses / by /
James Joyce," with text; numbered by the publisher in pencil
1 sheet with etching (James Joyce)
1 sheet with etching (Telemachia - Odyssey - Nostos)
1 sheet with etching (The Tower)
1 sheet with etching (History)
1 sheet with etching (Philology)
1 sheet with etching (Nymph)
1 sheet with etching (Communicants)
1 sheet with etching (Hades)
1 sheet with etching (Lungs)
1 sheet with etching (Architecture)
1 sheet with etching (Scylla and Charybdis)
1 sheet with etching (The Streets)
1 sheet with etching (Music)
1 sheet with etching (Cyclops)
1 sheet with etching (Star of the Sea)
1 sheet with etching (The Hospital)
1 sheet with etching (Midnight)
1 sheet with etching (Skin the Goat)
1 sheet with etching (Skeleton)
1 sheet with etching (The Bed)
1 sheet with etching (Penelope)
1 sheet with etching (Trieste - Zurich - Paris)