Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Colophon

thumb|600px|center|page=3 Annotations 1000 COPIES5A further 20 copies were printed, without dust jackets, on mixed paper and marked, press copy.AbeBooks. DUTCH HANDMADE PAPER5Holland handmade paper.AbeBooks. These copies sold for 350 francs.James Joyce Ellmann Richard 1982 Oxford University Press New York 504 VERGÉ D'ARCHES5A 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.James Joyce Ellmann Richard 1982 Oxford University Press New York 504 HANDMADE PAPER5Linen handmade paper, which was slightly less expensive than the paper used for the first 250 copies.AbeBooks. These copies sold for 150 francs.James Joyce Ellmann Richard 1982 Oxford University Press New York 504 typographical errors5The original edition of Ulysses contains more than 2000 errata.Jack Dalton, The Text of Ulysses, in Fritz Senn, ed. New Light on Joyce from the Dublin Symposium. Indiana University Press (1972), p.102. Several factors contributed to this outcome: Sylvia Beach's inexperience as a publisher;Ellmann Richard 1982 Ulysses: A Short History Ulysses Penguin Books Ltd 714 Joyce's poor eyesight, which made it difficult for him to correct galleys;James Joyce Gorman Herbert Sherman 1939 Farrar & Rinehart New York 288 the book's printer Maurice Darantière's inexperience at typesetting English texts;James Joyce Gorman Herbert Sherman 1939 Farrar & Rinehart New York 286–287 Gorman suggests that this may have been as much an advantage as a disadvantage, given the book's idiosyncrasies. Joyce's many late changes to the text;Ellmann Richard 1982 Ulysses: A Short History Ulysses Penguin Books Ltd 714James Joyce Gorman Herbert Sherman 1939 Farrar & Rinehart New York 287–288 Joyce, it seems, treated the galleys as drafts to be improved upon, whereas he should have been searching them for typographical errors. the avant-garde nature of the work.James Joyce Gorman Herbert Sherman 1939 Farrar & Rinehart New York 287 S. B.5Sylvia 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. References Annotations to James Joyce's UlyssesPreceding Page | Page Index | Next Page