Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Colophon


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1000 COPIES     A further 20 copies were printed, without dust jackets, on mixed paper and marked, press copy.[1]

DUTCH HANDMADE PAPER     Holland handmade paper.[2] These copies sold for 350 francs.[3]

VERGÉ D'ARCHES     A type of laid paper that is manufactured in the French town of Arches and reserved for deluxe editions of books. These copies sold for 250 francs.[4]

HANDMADE PAPER     Linen handmade paper, which was slightly less expensive than the paper used for the first 250 copies.[5] These copies sold for 150 francs.[6]

typographical errors     The original edition of Ulysses contains more than 2000 errata.[7] Several factors contributed to this outcome: Sylvia Beach's inexperience as a publisher;[8] Joyce's poor eyesight, which made it difficult for him to correct galleys;[9] the book's printer Maurice Darantière's inexperience at typesetting English texts;[10] Joyce's many late changes to the text;[11] the avant-garde nature of the work.[12]

S. B.     Sylvia Beach, proprietor of the Parisian bookstore Shakespeare and Company. She published Joyce's Ulysses on 2 February 1922. The printer was Maurice Darantière of Dijon. See Title Page.

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  3. Ellmann, Richard (1982). James Joyce. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 504.
  4. Ellmann, Richard (1982). James Joyce. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 504.
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  6. Ellmann, Richard (1982). James Joyce. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 504.
  7. Jack Dalton, The Text of Ulysses, in Fritz Senn, ed. New Light on Joyce from the Dublin Symposium. Indiana University Press (1972), p.102.
  8. Ellmann, Richard (1982). "Ulysses: A Short History". Ulysses. Penguin Books Ltd: 714.
  9. Gorman, Herbert Sherman (1939). James Joyce. New York: Farrar & Rinehart. p. 288.
  10. Gorman, Herbert Sherman (1939). James Joyce. New York: Farrar & Rinehart. pp. 286–287. Gorman suggests that this may have been as much an advantage as a disadvantage, given the book's idiosyncrasies.
  11. Ellmann, Richard (1982). "Ulysses: A Short History". Ulysses. Penguin Books Ltd: 714.
    Gorman, Herbert Sherman (1939). James Joyce. New York: Farrar & Rinehart. pp. 287–288. Joyce, it seems, treated the galleys as drafts to be improved upon, whereas he should have been searching them for typographical errors.
  12. Gorman, Herbert Sherman (1939). James Joyce. New York: Farrar & Rinehart. p. 287.
Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses
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