The Kelmscott Chaucer

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer published in 1896 by the Kelmscott Press was the culmination of William Morris’s vision for an ideal book, It embodied his love of medieval literature and art, as well as his love of beauty, Its vast scope and magnificence inspired his friend and collaborator Edward Burne-Jones to compare it to a “pocket cathedral,”

Kelmscott Chaucer • The McCune Collection

The Kelmscott Press’ The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Now Newly Imprinted commonly referred to as the “Kelmscott Chaucer” was published in 1896 by William Morris, He lived at Kelmscott House in Hammersmith, England, The press produced 425 copies in paper and 13 copies in vellum, This was Morris’ final great effort since he died within a few months after its publication,

William Morris and the Kelmscott Press

The Kelmscott Chaucer 1896, the most ambitious of the Press‘ works, is considered one of the finest volumes in the entire history of the book arts, The Glittering Plain, 1891, The Glittering Plain, 1894, An illustrated catalog of Morris’ library would have been too expensive to produce, so Cockerell featured thirty-five reproductions in Some German Woodcuts 1898 after Morris’ death

125 years of the Kelmscott Chaucer – William Morris and

125 years of the Kelmscott Chaucer – William Morris and the Kelmscott Press , In 2021 it will be 125 years since the publication of the Kelmscott Chaucer, the crowning glory of Morris’s book printing venture, The William Morris Society is fortunate to own one of Morris’s original printing presses as well as a collection of Kelmscott Press books, original designs and proof pages, In 2021

The Kelmscott Press Chaucer1896

The Kelmscott Press Chaucer, Folio, Original full white pigskin, lavishly stamp-decorated in neo-Gothic style; with original metal clasps and banded spine, Signed on the rear inner dentelle “Doves Bindery 1897”, Housed in a brown morocco slipcase, Ornamental woodcut title, 14 large borders, 18 different frames round the illustrations, 26

The Kelmscott Press

Morris created three types for use in his Kelmscott Press books: Golden – a Roman type based on those of 15th-century Venetian printers, Troy – a Gothic type created for The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troy, Chaucer – a smaller version of the Troy created for the Kelmscott Chaucer,

The Kelmscott Chaucer

We are the authors of The Kelmscott Chaucer: A Census, published by Oak Knoll Press in April 2011, The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, issued by William Morris’s Kelmscott Press in 1896, is probably the most famous of all private press books, set in types, ornaments, and initials designed by Morris and lavishly illustrated by Sir Edward Burne-Jones,

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Morris and the Kelmscott Press

The Kelmscott Press was, in a very real sense, the final statement, the culmination, of the work of art which was Morris’s life, as it was one of his final attempts to preserve the old relationships between the artist and his art and his society — threatened in his day as in our own — and one of his great legacies to posterity, In 1891 he rented a cottage near Kelmscott House and set up

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William Morris, the Kelmscott Press Chaucer, and the

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William Morris, the Kelmscott Press Chaucer, and the Princeton University Library , Robert J, Milevski , Independent Researcher , Princeton, New Jersey * * * William Morris died in 1896 and the centenary of his death in 1996 was widely celebrated and acclaimed with conferences, symposia, workshops, publications, and Internet websites, Many libraries presented exhibitions of Morris’s

British Library

At the beginning of 1891, premises were found at 16 Upper Mall, Hammersmith, William Bowden was engaged as master-printer to run the practical side of the business, Morris named the press after Kelmscott Manor, his beloved country house in Wiltshire,

The Kelmscott Chaucer

The Kelmscott Chaucer, Geoffrey Chaucer d, 1400, The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted Upper Mall, Hammersmith, in the county of Middlesex, Printed by me William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, Finished on the 8th day of May, 1896, Graphic Arts Collection GAX Oversize PR1850 1896f, William Morris 1834-1896 wrote, “Have

Geoffrey Chaucer, Kelmscott Press Edition

A work described as ‘perfect both in design and in the quality of the printingthe last and the most magnificent, the Kelmscott Chaucer‘ Printing and