Beschreibung:

KELMSCOTT PRESS. CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Edited by F.S. Ellis. Hammersmith 1896. Large folio, original holland-backed boards, uncut, back badly worn and the upper inner hinge ineffectively reinforced, some slight paper discoloration, slipcase (crudely repaired with tape). LIMITED EDITION, one of 425 copies of an edition of 438, printed in Chaucer type in black and red, with headings to the longer poems in Troy type, double column, 87 large woodcut illustrations after the pencil designs by Edward Burne-Jones redrawn in ink by R. Catterson-Smith and engraved by W. Hooper, woodcut title-page, 14 different full-page borders on 117 pages, 18 different frames around the illustrations and 26 19-Line initial words, all designed by William Morris and engraved by C.E. Keates, W.H. Hooper and W. Spielmeyer, numerous 10-line and smaller initial capitals. Cockerell 40; Peterson A40. Bookplate of Hartshorne.