Signed limited portfolio, number 124 of 150 sets of six plates, each of which are signed numbered and titled by Matisse, for the first illustrated edition. The plates comprise the artist's illustrations for the Limited Edition's Club edition of James Joyce's Ulysses, published that year.

These etchings were made to serve as illustrations for six episodes in James Joyce's 'Ulysses' which have their counterparts in Homer's 'Odyssey'" (title page). The episodes comprise: "The Calypso Episode"; "Aeolus, Cave of the Winds"; "The Cyclops"; "The Episode of Nausicaä"; "The Circle Episode"; and "Symbolic Landscape: Ithaca".

Folio. Loose etchings in folded printed wrappers within brown cloth folding portfolio. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery.

6 soft ground etchings printed on Arches vellum paper, each separated by original tissue guards. Sheet sizes: 41.3 x 31.5 cm