UPDATE: We've a new reward for all the bookshops out there: pre-order four copies
UPDATE: Eveline - the next illustration released here!
UPDATE: We reached 30%! Have a peek at our first illustration.

Dubliners is the first publication of fledgling publishing house, de Selby Press, based in Paris and started by veteran booksellers, Linda Fallon and Terry Craven, of Shakespeare and Company bookshop, Paris.

We want to produce a beautiful book inside and out and so we've commissioned illustrator Stephen Crowe, who's also working on a project to illustrate every page of Finnegans Wake. We've laboured over the text, getting it as close to Joyce's original as we can muster, and we've been working with an excellent French printer.

We're very excited to be working with such excellent artists and artisans, but there's more: one of our favourite Irish writers, Paul Murray, author of Skippy Dies and An Evening of Long Goodbyes, has written a brand new introduction, and one of our favourite Irish singers, Lisa Hannigan, has recorded an exclusive version of the classic Irish ballad, The Lass of Aughrim, to set the scene for the collection's longest and most renowned story, 'The Dead'. This will be available to download as one of our rewards, but we've put it here to get you in the mood:

THE IMPORTANT BIT:

We are almost there! All we need now is the final
push of the wheel: to raise the funds to get the
first print run on the road. Our goal: €15000!!*

The Release Date:

Our aim is to launch Dubliners at Shakespeare and
Company bookshop, Paris, on 4th September, 2014.

Thank you for your involvement in de Selby Press.

Updates:

Keep an eye on the campaign as it continues: we'll be making regular updates about our progression with all the illustrations, the cover and the layout. Also, for our fellow bibliophiles we'll be posting a short history of the font type we've decided upon, as well as a print history of Dubliners itself.

Further Thanks:

This project wouldn't have been possible without the energy and goodwill of everybody involved. We would like to thank Lisa Hannigan for her wonderful version of The Lass of Aughrim, Paul Murray for his great introduction and all that patience with his exigent editors, Stephen Crowe for his beautiful illustrations and hours of Skype conversations, Fabrizio Polpettini for the splendid video, David Grove for his type-setting skills, Saara Marchadour for her editing skills, and everybody at Shakespeare and Company for all their support and encouragement, and all our friends and family.

*If you're asking, 'why €15,000 and not the €10,000 quoted to the right?', see the section below on what we'll be doing with the funds.