White voices : being a translation / by Malcolm Parr of La croisade des enfants (1896) by Marcel Schwob ; with woodcut images by Keith Bayliss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwob, Marcel, 1867-1905.

Contributor:

Parr, Malcolm.

Bayliss, Keith

McDowall, Nicolas

Old Stile Press.

Fine Bindery (Firm)

Cartiere Miliani Fabriano

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Croisade des enfants. English

Language:

English

French

Latin

Subjects (All):

Children's Crusade, 1212--Fiction.

Children's Crusade, 1212.

French literature--Translations into English.

French literature.

Small press books.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Bayliss, Keith (autograph) (RBC copy)

Parr, Malcolm (autograph) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

52 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 x 36 cm

Place of Publication:

[Llandogo, Monmouthshire] : Old Stile Press, 2001.

Language Note:

Includes preface in Latin with English translation.

Summary:

Based on a historical incident of the thirteenth century, this hauntingly original symbolist tale is testimony to [Schwob's] powerful imagination and sensitivity to human suffering.--"About this book", p. [52].

Notes:

"Designed by Nicolas McDowall, and printed by him ... at The Old Stile Press ... Keyth Bayliss's woodcut images were printed from the wood ... the paper is Fabriano Rosaspina. The binding was ... executed at The Fine Bindery ...--colophon, p. [52].

"The edition consists of 200 copies, numbered and signed by the translator and by the artist."--colophon, p. [52].

Title on front endpapers.

Illustrated endpapers.

Issued in slipcase.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

RBC copy is no. 88 of 200.

RBC copy has the autographs, in pencil, of Macolm Parr and Keith Bayliss.

RBC copy lacks slipcase.

ISBN:

0907664571

9780907664574

OCLC:

48487673