Mimes : with a prologve and epilogve / by Marcel Schwob ; done into English by A. Lenalie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwob, Marcel, 1867-1905.

Contributor:

Lenalie, A. (Aimee), -1924, translator.

Thomas B. Mosher (Firm), publisher.

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

Language:

English

French

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Cunningham, Scott (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection) (copy 3)

Mosher, Thomas Bird, 1852-1923 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection) (copy 4)

Mackenzie, L. C. (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection) (copy 4)

Physical Description:

xxviii, 96 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : frontispiece (portrait) ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Portland, Me. : Thomas B. Mosher, 1901.

Notes:

"500 copies of this book have been printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper, and the type distributed."

50 numbered and signed copies printed on Japan vellum

Prose poems, imitations of Herondas' Mimes.

Translated from the edition of the "Mercure de France" 1894, containing the "Only additional Mime ever penned by M. Schwob." cf. p. [88].

"Bibliographical note" of M. Schwob: pages 89-95.

Local Notes:

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

Vilain-Wieck collection copies have dust wrappers. Copy 1 and 3 have first state of front cover--see Bishop. Copy 3 is in slipcase. Copy 4 is number 32 of 50 printed on Japan vellum.

Cited in:

Bishop, P.R. Mosher, 242

Hatch, B.L. Mosher, 186

Other Format:

Online version: Schwob, Marcel, 1867-1905. Mimes.

OCLC:

1150024