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• Title:[Works. 1896]
  The works of Geoffrey Chaucer, now newly imprinted.
  
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• Variant Title: Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
  Book of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer
  Kelmscott Chaucer
  
• Author/Creator:Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Ellis, Frederick Startridge, 1830-1901, editor.
  Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898, ill.
  Hooper, William Harcourt, 1834-1912, wood-engraver.
  Morris, William, 1834-1896, printer, book designer.
  Gribbel, John, 1858-1936, former owner.
  Schimmel, Stuart B., former owner.
  Slater, James A., former owner.
  Kelmscott Press, publisher.
  Doves Bindery, binder.
  
• Published/Created:[Hammersmith, Middlesex] : 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.
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS portfolioWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PR1850 1896
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Bookbinders--England.
  
• Genre/Form:Artists' books.
  
• Description:[4], ii, [2], 554, [2] pages : illustrations (wood-engravings) ; 44 cm (folio)
  
• Local note:UBC Library has a copy in a Dove's white pigskin binding, elaborately tooled in blind after a design by William Morris. Known as the "Slater-Gribbel-Schimmel" copy. Accompanied by two proofsheets: one (two conjugate leaves) has a variant font size, the other (one leaf) has illustration and border, but no text.
  
• 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, page 326.
  Edition of 425 copies on paper; 13 on vellum.
  Signatures: a⁴ b-2m⁸ 2n⁶ (a1, a2, and 2n6 blank)
  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.
  
• Cited in:Drake, J.F. Inc., Catalogue of a complete collection of Kelmscott Press books, entry 40
  Needham, P. William Morris and the art of the book, entry 101C
  Peterson, W.S. Kelmscott Press, entry A40
  Sparling, H.H. Kelmscott Press and William Morris, 40
  Walsdorf, J.J. William Morris, 40