The Cats of Copenhagen

First Edition. New. One of 26 Lettered copies. Signed by the printer and the illustrator. The Lettered Deluxe issue, printed on Crisbrook Waterleaf handmade paper, is in loose imperial quartos, with hand-marbled paper-wrappers and presented in a cloth-covered slip-case.

The first-ever appearance in print of James Joyce's story for children, The Cats of Copenhagen, in a special edition of 200 copies, limited to 26 Lettered copies, 170 Numbered copies & 4 copies Hors Commerce.

Exquisite, surprising, and with a keen, almost anarchic subtext, The Cats of Copenhagen is a slightly younger twin sister to The Cat and the Devil, the only other known example of James Joyce writing a story for young children. Both works, penned within a few weeks of each other in 1936, are in letters posted to his only grandchild, Stephen James Joyce. Michael Caine has printed this large-format letterpress edition with virtuoso skill, setting the text in a wondrously expressive array of original, early twentieth-century hand-cut Italian and French founts to capture the imagination of readers young and old. Casey Sorrow brings to life Joyce's curious 'Københavnere' with ingeniously playful pen-and-ink drawings, specially commissioned, and printed by typographique cliché. The Lettered Deluxe issue, printed on the last sheets of Crisbrook Waterleaf from the renowned and now historic Barcham Green handmade papermakers, is in loose imperial quartos, with paper-wrappers of Christopher Rowlatt's hand-marbled fantasia and presented in a vibrant cloth-covered slip-case.