KELMSCOTT PRESS.] CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer . Edited by F. S. Ellis. Hammersmith, 8 May 1896. 2° (424 x 290 mm). Double column, Chaucer type, headings to the longer poems in Troy type, headings, incipits and explicits printed in red, 87 large woodcut illustrations after the pencil designs by Edward Burne-Jones redrawn in ink by R. Catterson-Smith and cut in wood by W. H. Hooper, woodcut title-page, 14 different full page-borders on 117 pages, 18 different frames around the illustrations and 26 19-line initial words, printer's ornaments, printer's device, all designed by William Morris and cut in wood by Hooper, C. E. Keates and W. Spielmeyer, numerous 10-line and smaller initial capitals. (Occasional very light mostly marginal spotting, browning to fols. e3 and e6, light marginal soiling to a few leaves). Original holland-backed blue-paper covered boards, original printed paper label on spine (some very light soiling to covers, one corner bruised slightly); quarter morocco folding case (rubbed). A FINE COPY. LIMITED EDITION, one of 425 copies on paper from the edition of 438. The Artist and the Book 45; Needham, William Morris and the Art of the Book 101C; Peterson A40; Ray England 258
KELMSCOTT PRESS.] CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer . Edited by F. S. Ellis. Hammersmith, 8 May 1896. 2° (424 x 290 mm). Double column, Chaucer type, headings to the longer poems in Troy type, headings, incipits and explicits printed in red, 87 large woodcut illustrations after the pencil designs by Edward Burne-Jones redrawn in ink by R. Catterson-Smith and cut in wood by W. H. Hooper, woodcut title-page, 14 different full page-borders on 117 pages, 18 different frames around the illustrations and 26 19-line initial words, printer's ornaments, printer's device, all designed by William Morris and cut in wood by Hooper, C. E. Keates and W. Spielmeyer, numerous 10-line and smaller initial capitals. (Occasional very light mostly marginal spotting, browning to fols. e3 and e6, light marginal soiling to a few leaves). Original holland-backed blue-paper covered boards, original printed paper label on spine (some very light soiling to covers, one corner bruised slightly); quarter morocco folding case (rubbed). A FINE COPY. LIMITED EDITION, one of 425 copies on paper from the edition of 438. The Artist and the Book 45; Needham, William Morris and the Art of the Book 101C; Peterson A40; Ray England 258
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