Research Catalog

Title

The epiphanies / James Joyce ; [interpreted by Susan Weil & Marjorie Van Dyke]

Author

Joyce, James, 1882-1941.

Publication

New York : Vincent FitzGerald, 1987.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Weil, Susan.
• Van Dyke, Marjorie.
• Partovi, Zahra.
• Vincent Fitz Gerald & Company. pbl
• Wild Carrot Letterpress. prt
• Printmaking Workshop, printer of plates.
• Thistle Bindery. bnd

Description

1 case : col. ill.; 39 cm.

Genre/Form

• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Janson.
• Collages – United States – 20th century.
• Cut-paper works.
• Mixed media.

Note

• Contains t.p. (on 2 successive leaves) and 40 "epiphanies" on 40 numbered pages, printed on 11 bifolia, and 4 sections of ill. respectively titled Death, Dreams, Games, and Planes. Each section of ill. has special t.p. (on loose sheet) with color-coded numbers of the respective epiphanies. One sheet containing colophon at end.
• The epiphanies are "poetic prose vignettes ... never [before] published together ... [They were] written between the ages of 18 and 21"--Vincent Fitz Gerald cat. raisonné, p. 23.
• Lettering on title pages and in colophon reproduced from calligraphy by Jerry Kelly.
• Illustrations: 4 sections of prints and mixed media works, employing etching, lithography, watercolor, collage and handcutting. Comprise 2 sections by Weil (Death and Planes) in 2 sewn gatherings, and 2 sections by Van Dyke (Dreams and Games) on both sides of 2 sheets folded accordion-style. First bifolium (t.p.) contains additional double-page collage of images from all 4 sections. Etching editioned by Van Dyke and lithography by Rhae Burden, both at the Printmaking Workshop; collage executed by Zahra Partovi. For discussion, cf. Vincent Fitz Gerald cat. raisonné, p. 23-24; article by Corinne Robins in Arts magazine, May 1989, p. 69-70.
• Issued unbound, in brownish gray silk covered solander case with Joyce's profile outlined in silver on the front and initials JJ on spine, by David Bourbeau at the Thistle Bindery.

Indexed In (note)

• Phillips & Zwicker. American livre de peintre
• Vincent Fitz Gerald & Company. Catalogue raisonné

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1987 93-288

LCCN

89210961

OCLC

NYPG93-B42208

Author

Joyce, James, 1882-1941.

Title

The epiphanies / James Joyce ; [interpreted by Susan Weil & Marjorie Van Dyke]

Imprint

New York : Vincent FitzGerald, 1987.

Indexed In:

Phillips & Zwicker. American livre de peintre, 62

Vincent Fitz Gerald & Company. Catalogue raisonné, 14

Local Note

No. 24 of 50 copies printed in black and several colors at Wild Carrot Letterpress, Hadley, Mass., on Moulin de Gue paper from Janson type; signed in green pencil by the artists.

Added Author

Weil, Susan.

Van Dyke, Marjorie.

Partovi, Zahra.

Vincent Fitz Gerald & Company. Publisher

Wild Carrot Letterpress. Printer

Printmaking Workshop, printer of plates.

Thistle Bindery. Binder

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1987 93-288