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The works of Geoffrey Chaucer, now newly imprinted.

Title: The works of Geoffrey Chaucer, now newly imprinted.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Publication: [Hammersmith, Eng., Kelmscott Press, 1896. London, Basilisk Press, colophon 1974]

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KP+++ (Kelmscott) 78-356	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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ii, 554 p. illus.; 44 cm.

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515 copies printed; one of 500 offered for sale.
Designed by Peter Guy and printed for the Basilisk Press by John Roberts Press, Clerkenwell.
Printed in red and black.
Binding, publisher's, of "Larkspur" patterned cloth designed by William Morris, over boards, by A. W. Lumsden, Edinburgh.
Issued in a case.
-- --- A Companion volume to the Kelmscott Chaucer [by] Duncan Robinson. London, Basilisk Press, 1975. 146 p. illus. (part mounted) 44cm. 515 copies printed by W. S. Cowell, Ipswich. No. 491 of 500 offered for sale. The text includes D. Robinson's account of W. Morris' preparation of the original 1896 ed. of the Works of Chaucer at the Kelmscott Press, and an examination of the woodcut illustrations designed for that ed. by E. Burne-Jones. The remainder of the companion volume consists of 85 facsims. of the drawings made by Burne-Jones in preparation for his woodcut illustrations. Issued in slipcase (46cm.) with above. Bibliographical references. // Provenance: John Mackenzie Cory.

Call Number

*KP+++ (Kelmscott) 78-356

OCLC

NYPG794462778-B

Author

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

Title

The works of Geoffrey Chaucer, now newly imprinted.

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[Hammersmith, Eng., Kelmscott Press, 1896. London, Basilisk Press, colophon 1974]

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Robinson, Duncan.

Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, Sir, 1833-1898.

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Kelmscott Chaucer.

A Companion volume to the Kelmscott Chaucer.

Research Call Number

*KP+++ (Kelmscott) 78-356