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Lot 454 James Joyce The Day of the Rabblement
21 by 14 in.
Cathach Books, Dublin; Whyte's, 5 April 2008, lot 126; Whence purchased by the present owner
John J. Slocum and Hervert Cahoon, A Bibliography of James Joyce (1882-1941), Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1971, B1, pp. 71-3
Joyce’s first published essay and only the second of any of his published works. A critique of the overt nationalism and perceived provincialism of the Irish Literary Theatre, Joyce’s essay was originally commissioned by the editor of St Stephen’s magazine, but subsequently rejected by the censor on account of its mentioning a novel by Gabriel D’annunzio, Il Fuco (1900), which was banned by the Vatican.Privately published by Joyce and F. J. C. Skeffington, whose similarly censored essay on women’s education, ‘A Forgotten Aspect of the University Question’, is also contained herein. Joyce and Skeffington arranged for their essays to be printed together in pamphlet form by Gerrard Bros. The exact quantity printed is unknown. Skeffington’s son believed it to be in the region of 100 to 200, but in A Catalogue of Rare Books published in 1933 by the Ulysses Bookshop, New York, it was stated definitely that only 85 copies were printed. Handsomely presented in a green cloth folding box with matching slipcase of half calf, lettered in gilt and with raised bands. Handsomely presented in a green cloth folding box with matching slipcase of half calf, lettered in gilt and with raised bands.
Cathach Books, Dublin; Whyte's, 5 April 2008, lot 126; Whence purchased by the present owner
John J. Slocum and Hervert Cahoon, A Bibliography of James Joyce (1882-1941), Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1971, B1, pp. 71-3
Joyce’s first published essay and only the second of any of his published works. A critique of the overt nationalism and perceived provincialism of the Irish Literary Theatre, Joyce’s essay was originally commissioned by the editor of St Stephen’s magazine, but subsequently rejected by the censor on account of its mentioning a novel by Gabriel D’annunzio, Il Fuco (1900), which was banned by the Vatican.Privately published by Joyce and F. J. C. Skeffington, whose similarly censored essay on women’s education, ‘A Forgotten Aspect of the University Question’, is also contained herein. Joyce and Skeffington arranged for their essays to be printed together in pamphlet form by Gerrard Bros. The exact quantity printed is unknown. Skeffington’s son believed it to be in the region of 100 to 200, but in A Catalogue of Rare Books published in 1933 by the Ulysses Bookshop, New York, it was stated definitely that only 85 copies were printed. Handsomely presented in a green cloth folding box with matching slipcase of half calf, lettered in gilt and with raised bands. Handsomely presented in a green cloth folding box with matching slipcase of half calf, lettered in gilt and with raised bands.
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