The works of Geoffrey Chaucer
Subtitle: now newly imprinted
Contributors: Ellis, Frederick Startridge, 1830-1901; Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898; Morris, William, 1834-1896
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1896
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: enm
Number of pages: 554
Other titles: Kelmscott Chaucer.
Work titles: Works
Notes: Side notes and headings in red.

"Besides Burne-Jones eighty-seven pictures, it contains a full-page woodcut title, fourteen large borders, eighteen borders or frames for the pictures, and twenty-six large initial words. All of these, besides the ornamental initial letters large and small, were designed by Morris himself."--J.W. Mackail, The life of William Morris, v. 2, p. 326.

"Here ends the Book of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by F.S. Ellis; ornamented with pictures designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and engraved on wood by W.H. Hooper. Printed by me William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, in the county of Middlesex. Finished on the 8th day of May, 1896. The hearty thanks of the editor and printer are due to the Reverend Professor Skeat for kindly allowing the use of his emendations to the Ellesmere mss. of the Canterbury tales, and also of his emended texts of Chaucer's other writings."--Colophon.

One of 425 paper copies.

Perry 178-179

Morris-Cockerell 40