1922 Ulysses by James Joyce, 1st UK ed. #1532 of 2000, French Artist Provenance

Description: Ulysses By James Joyce Published: Egoist Press October 1922, London / Paris, 1922. Limited edition #1532 of 2000. First UK edition (printed in France). 732 pp. Hardcover in plain paper wrapped boards and blue cloth spine with gilt title. Inner hinges loosening, but binding still solid. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Handmade paper. Though this is the first edition of Joyce's masterpiece by an English publisher, it was published in Paris by John Rodker for the Egoist Press, as the book was still outlawed in the UK and US. Rodker used the original plates from the Shakespeare & Company first edition of February of the same year. This copy includes the eight pages of errata laid-in. This copy also carries the provenance of Claudius Edmund Delbos, M.A., LL.D. (June 28, 1878 - January 27, 1949), AKA "C. Edmund Delbos" Delbos was a renowned landscape painter and etcher. Born in London, England, to Clara Ann Ralph (b. 1854) and Leon Edmond Delbos (1850 - November 13, 1915). His given name was "Claudius," later shortened to "Claude," and later dropped completely when he became known as "C. Edmund Delbos." His father, Leon, was a professor of languages at King's College, London, England, and was a noted author and editor as well as having served as an officer-instructor in the British Navy and as the general editor and examiner for the University of Oxford. He was the author of over a dozen books on a variety of topics.Claudius Edmund Delbos was educated both in England and France. Though born in London, part of his youth was spent in Dartmouth Harbor, Devon, where his father worked for the Royal Navy. His cousin was the painter Henri Regnault and Delbos himself was a student in Paris, France of the artist Adolphe Dechenaud (June 28, 1868 -1929) with whom he shared a birthday. He was the elder brother of American painter Julius Maximilian Delbos (1879-1970) who also like his brother worked for a time as a teacher of art, music and French at schools in Connecticut, New Hampshire, and New York City. Their nephew, Claude Meyer Delbos, was also an artist who lived and worked in France. An academic like his father, Claudius Delbos first taught at Downside Abbey in Bath, England and in 1904 he arrived at Montreal to teach at the prestigious Upper Canada College Preparatory School, located in Toronto, Canada. Delbos served at the school from 1904 through 1908. He came to the United States permanently around 1910 to take up his longest appointment, from 1910 through 1925, as the headmaster of the Newman School (closed 1942), which was located first in Hackensack, New Jersey and later moved to Lakewood (where his brother Julius also resided between 1920 and 1927). Delbos was a respected bibliophile and editor, and among works he edited were: España and Émaux et Camées by Théophile Gautier (1907), and Poésies choisies de Alfred de Musset (1925). A portion of his extensive rare book holdings were sold through Parke-Bernet Galleries in New York City in 1943. He is also known to have been a friend and mentor of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), who attended the Newman School, where he served as one of the associate editors of the school paper, the Newman News. Letters between Fitzgerald and Delbos are included in Andrew Turnbull's book The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1963).Though Delbos depicted many European scenes during his career, including those at Pont Aven, Brittany, San Gimignano, Italy, and in Devonshire, England, he became known in America for his scenes of Massachusetts, in particularly of the villages and towns of Gloucester, Lanesville, and Rockport. In fact, he was part of a group of "artist activists" in Gloucester, where he had a summer home and studio during the 1930s named "Tighnamara," which was located at Bass Rocks. The group included Delbos himself and fellow artists John Barry, Theresa Bernstein, Frederick L. Stoddard, and William Meyerowitz. They were influential in helping to establish, in 1933, an art exhibition that featured the work of Cape Ann artists which were featured at local businesses in the center of Gloucester. The Michigan History Magazine noted during his lifetime that Delbos was " . . . well-known for his landscape paintings and etchings."After decades as a bachelor, on November 15, 1924 Delbos married Marie Hall Fuger (September 7, 1872 - November 30, 1961), widow of Lieutenant William Frederick Fuger (February 21, 1869 - November 26, 1915). Her family had owned the famous estate "Tonnancour," located on the shores of Lake St. Clair in Michigan. How they met in unknown, as Delbos is not known to have settled in the Detroit area until after his marriage. However, it is likely that they met during his last years as headmaster at the Newman School, perhaps while she was visiting with friends in New York City. They eventually settled just outside Detroit, where they resided at 333 Lincoln Road, Grosse Pointe, Michigan. In December of 1938 he petitioned the Michigan courts for United States citizenship.He and his wife were very active in several art groups. Delbos himself was a member of the Artists Market; the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts; The Detroit Symphony Society; the Fine Arts Society; the Gloucester Society of Artists; the Grosse Pointe Artists Association; and the Detroit Museum of Arts Founders Society. He was a donor of money and objects to multiple museums, including the Detroit Institute of Arts (where he gave a Rohlfs tempera and Guercino drawing), and the Toledo Museum of Art (where he donated an oil by William Frederick Mayor). Delbos was also was a benefactor who helped to mount a major exhibition of paintings by Polish artists at the end of World War II (Polish Paintings: a Loan Exhibition, June 1st to July 1st 1945, at the Detroit Institute of Arts in association with the Friends of Polish Art). Delbos exhibited widely, and there are doubtless more exhibitions yet unknown that could be added to the following list of known exhibitions in which he participated during his lifetime: Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit, MI (u.d.); Exhibitions in New York City, NY, (u.d.); Gloucester Society of Artists, Gloucester, MA (u.d.); Royal Academy, London, England, (possibly, u.d.); Royal Institute of Oil Painters, London, England, 1908; Salon of the Société des Artistes Français, Paris, France, 1913, 1927; Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, 1927; National Academy of Design, New York City, NY, 1928 (Twice), 1931; John Hanna Gallery, Detroit, MI, 1928 (Solo), 1929 (Solo); Annual Exhibition for Michigan Artists at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, 1930-1935, 1936 (Prize), 1937 (Oils and Etchings), 1938 (Jury Member), 1939-1940; Annual Philadelphia Watercolor Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1930. During his lifetime he received at least two awards for his artistic achievements: The Hal H. Smith Etching Purchase Prize (1932), and the Mrs. Standish Backus Purchase Prize (1936).I've done my best to describe the book, but if you have additional questions, please don't hesitate to send me an e-mail.

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