So here then are dreams / by Olive Schreiner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920.

Contributor:

Roycroft Shop, publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Dreams

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)

Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (autograph) (Roycroft 104)

Sly, G. Eugene (bookplate) (Roycroft 104)

Zigrosser, Carl, 1891-1975 (donor) (LIBRA Rare copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 82 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 27 x 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[East Aurora, N.Y.] : [The Roycroft Shop], [1901]

Contents:

The lost joy.

The hunter.

The gardens of pleasure.

Life's gifts.

In a far-off world.

Three dreams in a desert.

A dream of wild bees.

In a ruined chapel.

The artist's secret.

"I thought I stood."

The sunlight lay across my bed.

Notes:

Ornamental t.-p.

Colophon: So here endeth "Dreams," by Olive Schreiner: the initials, borders and ornaments being designed by Saint Gerome; and the whole done into a printed book under the supervision of Andrew Andrews, honest Roycrofter, at the Roycroft shop, which is in East Aurora, in the year nineteen hundred and one.

The text body is set in ATF Satanick and was printed on Imperial Japan Vellum for the 3/4 leather edition of 100 and Roycroft handmade paper for the regular edition bound in paper over boards with a suede spine. Jerome Connor designed the title page and decorations and the Typography was by Andrew Andrews.----cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]

Published in 1891 under title: Dreams.

Local Notes:

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Roycroft Press imprints presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012.

Roycroft 104 on imperial Japan vellum, number 65 of 100. Signed by Hubbard.

Roycroft 105 bound in half suede. Title in white on grey boards. With photocopies laid in.

Roycroft 106 bound in 3/4 leather, over marbled boards.

Roycroft 109 bound in half suede. Title in rust on grey boards.

LIBRA Rare copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Carl Zigrosser.

LIBRA Rare copy bound in quarter suede over olive paper boards; gold-stamped leather spine title label; title stamped in white on left board; olive endpapers; deckled edges, untrimmed; olive silk marker.

Cited in:

McKenna, P. Roycroft, 66

Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-063-01

OCLC:

2495957