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The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: The William Morris
Kelmscott Chaucer With Illustrations by Edward
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Designer, social reformer, and writer William Morris (1834 11 96) was a founder of the Arts and
Crafts movement and a towering figure of Victorian artistic and cultural history. Inspired by the
hand presses of the fifteenth century, Morris established the Kelmscott Press to publish books of
his own design and to revive the quality achieved by the pioneers of printing. The Works of
Geoffrey Chaucer represents Morris's most ambitious undertaking as a printer and designer as
well as his swansong the four-year undertaking was completed just a few months before his death.
Morris supervised every detail of production, including the choice of ink and paper, the design of
the type, and the use of ornaments and illustration. His lifelong friend, the celebrated painter
Edward Burne-Jones, drew 87 magnificent full-page woodcut illustrations. quotIf we live to finish
it,quot Burne-Jones wrote, quotit will be like a pocket cathedral 12 so full of design and I think
Morris the greatest master of ornament in the world.quotThe expensive, beautiful books from the
Kelmscott Press were designed to be read slowly, to be savored and treasured in a way that
formed a lasting bond between the reader, the text, and the author. For all their decorative
richness, the books maintain a clarity and simplicity that make them easy to read as well as a
delight to the eye. As the culmination of the work of art that was Morris's life, the Kelmscott
Chaucer embodies the printer's attempt to restore the connection between artist, art, and society.
Upon its 1896 publication, The Athenaeum stated, quotIn its own style, the book is, beyond
dispute, the finest ever issued,quot and to this day it is regarded as one of the most beautiful
printed books in existence. Originally published in a limited edition of fewer than 500 copies 12
hardly any of which surface on the rare book market 12 this extraordinary work is now available to
a new generation of collectors and bibliophiles.