Read Ireland Book News - Issue 9
<-- [Back To Main Menu] Ulysses: The Dublin Edition
Ulysses, the summit of James Joyce's artistic achievement and of twentieth-century literature, represents a day - 16 June 1904 - in the life of Dublin and its citizens. First published by Sylvia Beach of Shakespeare and Company in Paris on Joyce's fortieth birthday, 2 February 1922, Ulysses has been dogged ever since by poor and misguided editions containing many hundreds of errors - each a stain on Joyce's canvas. On Bloomsday, 16 June 1997, Joyce's masterpiece, comprehensively edited by Danis Rose, will be published for the first time in the city it depicts.
The Dublin Edition, published by the Lilliput Press, is informed by a radical reappraisal of Joyce's writing of the book, as detailed in Rose's fifty-page Introduction. Rose's approach, rooted in his unique knowledge of the manuscript record, has been hailed by Michael Groden of "The James Joyce Archive" as 'bold and brilliant, confident and controversial'. Fritz Senn of the James Joyce Foundation in Zurich, writes: 'I have found Danis Rose a devoted, conscientious and scrupulous scholar - scrupulous according to his own strong principles. These principles, whether I agree with them or not, tend to be independent, autonomous, even radical, and often challenge assumptions that we have commonly shared for a long time. That is one reason why I welcome a new edition of "Ulysses" by Danis Rose.
The Dublin Edition, like its great original in Paris in 1922 and the first Bodley Head London edition of 1936, is being issued by The Lilliput Press in a limitation edition of 1000 numbered copies. Numbers 1 to 100 will be signed by the editor and by John Banville, Ireland's leading novelist, who is furnishing a Foreword to the work. The deluxe edition will be bound in quarter Chieftain goatskin, blind embossed and blocked in gold, with the top edge gilt, all in a buckram slipcase; the limitation leaf is to be printed on Arches, a handmade rag paper from the same mill in France which supplied Darantiere of Dijon, printer of the first edition. Numbers 101 to 1000 will be specially clothbound with label and papercard slipcase. The whole will be typeset in Sabon, printed on acid-free paper, rounded and backed, with ribbon marker and head- and tail-bands.
De Luxe Edition (numbers 1-100): 500 Irish pounds (775 US dollars approximately) [Add To Basket]
Special Edition (numbers 101-1000): 100 Irish pounds (155 USD apx) [Add To Basket]
Trade Hardback Edition: 20.00 Irish pounds (31 USD apx) [Add To Basket]
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