Artist Index: Morris, William

Morris, William. Kelmscott Chaucer. 1 Blatt. Schriftraum: 29 x 21 cm. Format: 42,5 x 28,5 cm. Mit Passepartout unter Glas gerahmt in vergoldeter Holzprofilleiste 56,5 x 45 cm. Hammersmith, Kelmscott Press, 1896.
The Artist & the Book 45. Clark Library 46-48. Peterson A40. Ransom 329, 40. Sparling 40. Tomkinson117, 40. – Das originale, in schwarz und rot gedruckte Blatt 541 "Troilus and Criseyde. Liber V." aus dem berühmten "Kelmscott Chaucer", dem absoluten Höhepunkt der Druckkunst von William Morris als Typograf und Designer. "The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer represents the culmination of Morris’s lifelong search for the Ideal Book; it is the kind of book that he and Burne-Jones dreamed of creating when they were undergraduates and that they attempted unsuccessfully to produce during the 1860s and 1870s: It should have come out when Morris and I were at Oxford in our first term." (aus dem Nachwort zur Faksimile-Ausgabe 2008). – Etwas gebräunt, mit zwei helleren Montageflecken und leichtem Durchschlag.