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The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: The William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer with Illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: The William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer with Illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones

Chaucer, Geoffrey
Burne-Jones, Edward

Hardcover

Series: Calla Editions

Fiction AnthologiesEuropean Art

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ISBN10: 1606601040
ISBN13: 9781606601044
Publisher: Calla Editions
Published: May 17 2017
Pages: 576
Weight: 7.60
Height: 2.00 Width: 9.30 Depth: 12.00
Language: English
Designer, social reformer, and writer William Morris (1834 - 96) was a founder of the Arts and Crafts movement and a towering figure of Victorian artistic and cultural history. Inspired by the hand presses of the fifteenth century, Morris established the Kelmscott Press to publish books of his own design and to revive the quality achieved by the pioneers of printing. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer represents Morris's most ambitious undertaking as a printer and designer as well as his swansong; the four-year undertaking was completed just a few months before his death. Morris supervised every detail of production, including the choice of ink and paper, the design of the type, and the use of ornaments and illustration. His lifelong friend, the celebrated painter Edward Burne-Jones, drew 87 magnificent full-page woodcut illustrations. If we live to finish it, Burne-Jones wrote, it will be like a pocket cathedral -- so full of design and I think Morris the greatest master of ornament in the world.

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