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.