The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. (Facsimile Edition of the Kelmscott Chaucer).

This is a rare book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

(Lond.: Folio Society, 2008). Folio. Orig. gilt dec. brown cloth. In orig. gilt slip case. Top edge gilt. (2, iv, 560pp.). Beautifully printed on Oxenford twin-wire laid paper, specially made at the James Cropper Mill in Cumbria. With num. fine illust. borders by Edward Burne-Jones. Text in red and black with decorated capitals. Illust. print of ""The Prologue of the Wife of Bath's Tale"" loosely inserted. NOTE: Chaucer's text was edited by William Morris, whose ""aim was to recapture, without direct copying, the simplicity and vitality of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century editions of Chaucer that were closer in time and spirit to Chaucer's own age"" (From The Kelmscott Chaucer: An Afterword by William S. Peterson).