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James Joyce

Ulysses (Limited Edition)

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Illustrated by John Vernon Lord

Fully bound in leather, Folio’s centenary edition of the modernist masterpiece is illustrated and signed by John Vernon Lord.

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Book Details
 
Production DetailsLimited to 500 hand-numbered copies signed by John Vernon Lord
Bound in green calfskin leather blocked in gold foil
Printed in two colours throughout
Gold page tops
Two green grosgrain ribbon markers
Print by John Vernon Lord presented in a folder featuring a design by the artist
Presentation box: Clamshell box covered in red cloth inset with a printed label and blocked in gold foil
Dimensions11⅖ inches x 8 inches
Presentation box: 3½ inches x 12½ inches x 9 inches
FontSet in Dante and printed on Munken Pure paper
Pages768 pages
AuthorJames Joyce
Illustrated byJohn Vernon Lord
IllustrationFrontispiece and 18 full-page colour illustrations printed on Natural Evolution Ivory paper
PrintingLimited to 500 hand-numbered copies
Editor's Notes
 
To mark the centenary of publication on 2 February 2022, this Folio Society limited edition, bound in calfskin leather, celebrates one of the greatest novels of the 20th century in the most authoritative edition of the text. The intricate artwork by John Vernon Lord, one of the finest illustrators working today, includes 19 colour illustrations and an exclusive print presented in a folder featuring a design by the artist. Lord has also signed each of the 500 hand-numbered copies on a letterpress-printed limitation page.

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

John Vernon Lord

John Vernon Lord was born in Glossop, England, and studied illustration in Salford and London. His children’s books have been published widely and translated into several languages. His picture book The Giant Jam Sandwich has become a classic, having been in print for over forty years, and his Aesop’s Fables won the W. H. Smith/V&A Illustration award in 1990. He has illustrated many books on the subjects of fables, myths, legends, sagas, epics and nonsense. He was Professor of Illustration at the University of Brighton, where he is now Professor Emeritus. His most recent illustration work for The Folio Society has been for Finnegans Wake (2014) and Ring of the Nibelung (2020). For Ulysses he was presented with the Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year Prize at the V&A illustration awards in 2018. His studio has been based in Ditchling since 1971.

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ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

John Vernon Lord

John Vernon Lord was born in Glossop, England, and studied illustration in Salford and London. His children’s books have been published widely and translated into several languages. His picture book The Giant Jam Sandwich has become a classic, having been in print for over forty years, and his Aesop’s Fables won the W. H. Smith/V&A Illustration award in 1990. He has illustrated many books on the subjects of fables, myths, legends, sagas, epics and nonsense. He was Professor of Illustration at the University of Brighton, where he is now Professor Emeritus. His most recent illustration work for The Folio Society has been for Finnegans Wake (2014) and Ring of the Nibelung (2020). For Ulysses he was presented with the Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year Prize at the V&A illustration awards in 2018. His studio has been based in Ditchling since 1971.

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ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

John Vernon Lord

John Vernon Lord was born in Glossop, England, and studied illustration in Salford and London. His children’s books have been published widely and translated into several languages. His picture book The Giant Jam Sandwich has become a classic, having been in print for over forty years, and his Aesop’s Fables won the W. H. Smith/V&A Illustration award in 1990. He has illustrated many books on the subjects of fables, myths, legends, sagas, epics and nonsense. He was Professor of Illustration at the University of Brighton, where he is now Professor Emeritus. His most recent illustration work for The Folio Society has been for Finnegans Wake (2014) and Ring of the Nibelung (2020). For Ulysses he was presented with the Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year Prize at the V&A illustration awards in 2018. His studio has been based in Ditchling since 1971.

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ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

John Vernon Lord

John Vernon Lord was born in Glossop, England, and studied illustration in Salford and London. His children’s books have been published widely and translated into several languages. His picture book The Giant Jam Sandwich has become a classic, having been in print for over forty years, and his Aesop’s Fables won the W. H. Smith/V&A Illustration award in 1990. He has illustrated many books on the subjects of fables, myths, legends, sagas, epics and nonsense. He was Professor of Illustration at the University of Brighton, where he is now Professor Emeritus. His most recent illustration work for The Folio Society has been for Finnegans Wake (2014) and Ring of the Nibelung (2020). For Ulysses he was presented with the Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year Prize at the V&A illustration awards in 2018. His studio has been based in Ditchling since 1971.

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ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

John Vernon Lord

John Vernon Lord was born in Glossop, England, and studied illustration in Salford and London. His children’s books have been published widely and translated into several languages. His picture book The Giant Jam Sandwich has become a classic, having been in print for over forty years, and his Aesop’s Fables won the W. H. Smith/V&A Illustration award in 1990. He has illustrated many books on the subjects of fables, myths, legends, sagas, epics and nonsense. He was Professor of Illustration at the University of Brighton, where he is now Professor Emeritus. His most recent illustration work for The Folio Society has been for Finnegans Wake (2014) and Ring of the Nibelung (2020). For Ulysses he was presented with the Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year Prize at the V&A illustration awards in 2018. His studio has been based in Ditchling since 1971.

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About the Author

Born in Dublin in 1882, James Joyce was a brilliant student. Following his graduation from University College Dublin in 1902, he moved to Paris and would spend much of the rest of his life in Continental Europe. A brief stint as a medical student was abandoned for a writing career and his first book, a collection of poems entitled Chamber Music, was published in 1907. Dubliners (1914) and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) followed, but it was not until the publication of Ulysses on 2 February 1922, Joyce’s 40th birthday, that he achieved international fame. His last novel, Finnegans Wake, was finally published in 1939 after seventeen years of composition. Joyce died in Zurich in 1941.