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II.B.2: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Typescript of Publisher’s Instructions for the Front Matter for the Second English Printing with American Sheets (1921)

Material Description and Collation

The manuscript consists of 3 loose sheets of typing paper that are purple ribbon top (original) copies; the versos are blank.


Measurements

The sheets measure 25.3 x 20.0 cm.


Pagination

The sheets are not numbered.


Contents

The manuscript consists of instructions by Harriet Shaw Weaver for changes to the front matter of the 1921 Egoist Press Edition (see MS II.B.1). Page [1] is a “list of books by the same writer”; p. [2] is the “title page”; and p. [3] is the “copyright notice and printing statement”.


Dating

Weaver prepared these instructions in 1921.


Other Markings

There are notations in Joyce’s hand in black ink on all the pages and printers’ markings on p. [3] in pencil.


Publication

The manuscript has not been reproduced.


Notes

The pages have been folded twice horizontally and once vertically.