The Works Of Geoffrey Chaucer Now Newly Imprinted / The Canterbury Tales: Prologue (Single Page Proof Of The Preliminary 1893 Version)
By Chaucer; Pictures Designed By Sir Edward Burne-Jones; Borders And Large Initial Letters Designed By William Morris; Wood Engraving By William Harcourt Hooper, Charles E. Keates, And W. Spielmeyer; Text Edited By Frederick Startridge Ellis.
Single Page Proof Of The 1893 Version Of The Kelmscott Chaucer, Which Was Slightly Revised When Published In 1896. Printed On Laid Paper With Lines 1 ½? Apart, No Watermark, And The Sheet Is 12 3/4" Wide, Rough Edges, By 16 5/8" Tall, Straight Cut With Lower Margin Slightly At An Angle; This Is About 1 ½? Wider And 1/4? Shorter, But Otherwise Exactly Like The First Page Of The Bifolium Which Was Distributed To A Few Booksellers Circa 1893. Undamaged, But Two Horizontal Partial Folds, Not Creased, From Storage When Rolled.
Published by: Kelmscott Press, 1893
Vendor: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA
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By Chaucer; Pictures Designed By Sir Edward Burne-Jones; Borders And Large Initial Letters Designed By William Morris; Wood Engraving By William Harcourt Hooper, Charles E. Keates, And W. Spielmeyer; Text Edited By Frederick Startridge Ellis.
Single Page Proof Of The 1893 Version Of The Kelmscott Chaucer, Which Was Slightly Revised When Published In 1896. Printed On Laid Paper With Lines 1 ½? Apart, No Watermark, And The Sheet Is 12 3/4" Wide, Rough Edges, By 16 5/8" Tall, Straight Cut With Lower Margin Slightly At An Angle; This Is About 1 ½? Wider And 1/4? Shorter, But Otherwise Exactly Like The First Page Of The Bifolium Which Was Distributed To A Few Booksellers Circa 1893. Undamaged, But Two Horizontal Partial Folds, Not Creased, From Storage When Rolled.
Published by: Kelmscott Press, 1893
Vendor: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA
