Finn's Hotel

One of only 10 copies printed on Zerkall Litho for presentation in Artist's Bindings. Designed by the Spanish artist Antonio Veléz Celemín exclusively for the first edition, these copies are beautifully handbound in quarter cloth with exquisite hand marbling on both the book and the slipcase, joining two complementary patterns. To achieve this unique and specially commissioned design, the artist has combined Suminagashi (a Japanese technique dating back to 1055) using only black ink, and the classic western pattern of 'wavy thorns'. These are our 'top copies': they marry the finest in printing art with a rare fine-binding.


The First Edition of  FINN'S HOTEL by James Joyce. Edited, arranged and with a preface by Danis Rose, introduced by Seamus Deane, with eleven illustrations by Casey Sorrow. Designed and printed letterpress by Michael Caine for Ithys Press, Dublin. The Preface and Joyce's text have been handset by Caine in Van Dijk, Kis-Janson and various early 20th Century typefaces and the Introduction has been set by Phil Abel in Monotype Univers. The edition is limited to 180 copies : of 40 head copies on Zerkall mouldmade, 10 signed deluxe copies I-X are housed in bespoke bindings featuring the handmarbling of Antonio Vélez Celemín of Madrid, and 26 copies lettered A-Z and 4 copies Hors Commerce are issued in paper wrappers within clamshell boxes ; 140 numbered copies on Fedrigoni Vellum are presented in Elisabeth Hyder's printed paper over boards. The edition has been handbound by Tom Duffy in Dublin's 5 Lamps.