DREAMS

Olive Schreiner was a South African writer and a pioneer in many different fields of literature. Amongst her earliest writing was a series of Christian Symbolist prose poems, collectively titled Dreams.
This edition using the design of a limited edition Belle-Epoque edition by a French editor who saw in Schreiner the equal of his own Symbolist writers, and commissioned a series of illustrations from the Swiss symbolist artist Carlos Schwabe. It uses a recreation of the original typeface and lettrines, and is set in colours that match the original ink.
By setting the prose poems in this way, perhaps Schreiner's genius can find a new recognition for the gems that they are.