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July 85 $50
Brattle Book Shop
Boston, Mass.
Woodcut illust - $300
Border printe pages $150
See #207

Chaucer, Geoffrey
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Hammersmith.
(Colophon)May 8, 1816 completion of printing Morris died on 3 Oct. 1896 p. 237-8
June 26, 1896 date of publication.
Ed. by F.S. Ellis with 87 woodcut illustrations by Sir
Edward Bunne Jona, engraved by W.H. Hooper.
115 pages of the text are within elaborate woodcut borders,
in 14 different designs all by Morris, as are the full page
woodcut title, the 26 large initial words, + the numerous
initials of different sizes throughout the text.
Folio. Chaucer type in double columns, with headings to
the longer poems in Troy type. Black + red.
425 paper copies at L 20. 13 vellum at 120 guineas.
11 1/4 x 16 1/2". 554 pages. Published by W. Morris.
- brown + goldfore-edge..
Ransom, p. 329, #40; Tomkinson, p 117 Sparling, pp 162-4.
on last page 554 - "Rev. Professor Sheat for kindly
allowing the use of his emendations to the Ellesmere MS
of the Canterbury Tales, + also of his emended texts of
Chaucer's other writings."
p. 215 - p4 Canterbury Tales p.1-222
p. 231 q4 An ABC of G. Chaucer p 223
p. 247 nt Womanly Noblense p 240
The Romauent of the Rose p 241
This book is the supreme achievement of the Kelmscott
Press. In 1891 Morris concieved the idea of printing a
Chaucer from a type which he planned to design. The
headings - Troy type was the result. Finding it too larger, he recut
it in the pica size, calling it the Chaucer Type.
The printing of the great Chaucer took Morris 21 months.