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The works of Geoffrey Chaucer, now newly imprinted Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Description
Title page and 1st text page within decorative borders; ornamental initials and marginal decorations; sidenotes in red.
Text in double columns; printed in Chaucer type; with the headings to the longer poems in Troy type; the whole was printed on Batchelor handmade paper watermarked with a fish.
Item Metadata
| Title |
The works of Geoffrey Chaucer, now newly imprinted
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| Alternate Title |
[Works. 1896]; Works of Geoffrey Chaucer; Book of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer; Kelmscott Chaucer
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| Creator | |
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| Publisher |
[Hammersmith, Middlesex] : Kelmscott Press
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| Date Issued |
1896
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| Description |
Title page and 1st text page within decorative borders; ornamental initials and marginal decorations; sidenotes in red.
Text in double columns; printed in Chaucer type; with the headings to the longer poems in Troy type; the whole was printed on Batchelor handmade paper watermarked with a fish. |
| Extent |
4 unnumbered pages, ii, 2 unnumbered pages, 554 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (wood-engravings) ; 44 cm (folio)
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| File Format |
application/pdf
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| Language |
English
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| Notes |
"Here ends the Book of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by F.S. Ellis; ornamented with pictures designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and engraved on wood by W.H. Hooper. Printed by me, William Morris, at the Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, in the county of Middlesex. Finished on the 8th day of May, 1896. The hearty thanks of the editor and printer are due to the Reverend Professor Skeat for kindly allowing the use of his emendations to the Ellesmere MS. of the Canterbury tales, and also of his emended texts of Chaucer's other writings--Colophon.
"Besides Burne-Jones' eighty-seven pictures, it contains a full-page woodcut title, fourteen large borders, eighteen borders or frames for the pictures, and twenty-six large initial words. All of these, besides the ornamental initial letters large and small, were designed by Morris himself"--The life of William Morris by J.W. Mackail, v. 2, p. 326. Edition of 425 copies on paper; 13 on vellum. Signatures: a? b-2m? 2n? (a1, a2, and 2n6 blank). |
| Identifier |
PR1850 1896; PR1850_1896
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| Collection | |
| Source |
Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. PR1850 1896
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| Date Available |
2018-05-08
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| Provider |
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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| Rights |
Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.ubc.ca
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| Catalogue Record | |
| AIPUUID |
5be84e3c-7f99-42a3-a227-f9408bc693ee ; f903cd6b-e7c4-40c2-a785-b32c4a88947e
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| DOI |
10.14288/1.0366915
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| Aggregated Source Repository |
CONTENTdm
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Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.ubc.ca