Fritz Senn

Helen Vogt was Professor Vogt's daughter.

She had an interest in English literature.

She knew English, which was unusual at that time for a young Swiss woman.

So the dedication is to Helen Vogt.

And at the bottom of the title page, there is a note in pencil in Professor Vogt's hand saying 7th of...

June 1930.

A present from the author three weeks after the operation.

He, Joyce, said to me, Professor Vogt, you are lucky, you're getting the very last copy of the first edition of

First printing.

The 11th printing has just appeared.

The fact that Joyce was parting with the very last copy of the first edition, first printing, just tells us how immensely grateful he was to Vogt, who gave him back his eyesight.

Another very beautiful item is this portfolio, Poems Benny Each, Joyce's second poetry collection.

It was first published by Sylvia Beach in 1922 at Shakespeare and Company's

This edition is the first English edition, and it was published by Fine Arts Press, or actually by two presses, printed in France, but published by Desmond Harmsworth, London, in conjunction with the Obelisk Press.

This is probably more an art item or an art object than a book to read.

It consists of six loose handmade sheets on which the poems are printed in the facsimile of Joyce's hand.

Ours is number 23 out of only 25 copies.

So they are hugely valuable.

But what makes this edition particularly interesting is that it is one of three collaborations of Joyce with his daughter Lucia.

Lucia developed her own style, inspired by medieval illuminations and also by the contemporary Art Nouveau, the fin de siècle art style.