The Kelmscott Chaucer

Author / Editor
Robinson, Duncan.

Title
The Kelmscott Chaucer

Published
William K. Finley and Joseph Rosenblum, eds. Chaucer Illustrated: Five Hundred Years of the Canterbury Tales in Pictures (New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll; London: British Library, 2003), pp. 274-310.

Description
The essay describes the personal and social conditions that led to the 1896 production of the Kelmscott Chaucer by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. Robinson compares preliminary sketches and final woodcut illustrations. Adapted from Robinson's "Companion Volume to the Kelmscott Chaucer" (1975).

Alternative Title
Chaucer Illustrated: Five Hundred Years of the Canterbury Tales in Pictures

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.