[The Kelmscott Chaucer]
( Edward BURNE-JONES, illus. ) ( KELMSCOTT PRESS ) CHAUCER, Geoffrey
Edited by F.S. Ellis and illustrated by Edward Burne-Jones.
NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
Published: Folio Society, [2008]
Stock code: 27348
Price: £380.00
Large folio, on laid paper, text in red and black throughout, with numerous fine illustrations and borders in the text; full brown buckram boards and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt top, brown endpapers, broad black silk marker, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case lettered in gilt.
Superb facsimile of the Arts & Crafts classic, based on the Limited FS edition of 2002. Includes an extended essay by William S. Peterson. NOW SCARCE IN ITS OWN RIGHT.