The Kelmscott Chaucer

The Kelmscott Chaucer PDF

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Publisher: Collector's Library

Published: 2011-09

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 9781907360510

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The Kelmscott Chaucer is the most memorable and beautiful edition of the complete works of the first great English poet. Next to The Gutenberg Bible, it is considered the outstanding typographic achievement of all time. There are 87 full-page illustrations by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and the borders, decorations and initials are drawn byWilliam Morris himself. Only 425 copies of this magnificent work were produced in 1896, and this beautiful monochrome facsimile, slightly smaller than the original, makes this glorious book available to all. A fascinating Introduction by Nicholas Barker places the book and its importance in context. The main text is followed by a black and white facsimile of ANoteby William Morris on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press, together with a Short History of the Press by S C Cockerell.

The Ideal Book

The Ideal Book PDF

Author: William Morris

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-12-22

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0520345223

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.

The Kelmscott Press

The Kelmscott Press PDF

Author: William S. Peterson

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780520061385

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From a quantitative point of view the achievement of the Kelmscott Press may not seem impressive: between 1891 and 1898 it produced fifty-two books and a set of specimen pages for another book. Yet each was remarkably beautiful. Designed by William Morris, printed on hand-presses, ornamented with initials and borders by Morris, and illustrated often by Edward Burne-Jones, these few Kelmscott Press books are famous everywhere today. Why they have so profoundly affected twentieth-century theories of book design and what cultural significance the founding of the Kelmscott Press played are some of the questions the author considers.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles

The Water of the Wondrous Isles PDF

Author: William Morris

Publisher: IndyPublish.com

Published: 1897

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13:

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The said town was hard on the borders of a wood which men held to be mighty great or maybe measureless; though few indeed had entered it and they that had brought back tales wild and confused thereof.

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